Private equity acquisitions of Dental companies have accelerated in recent years as PE firms employ an industry roll-up strategy in this traditionally fragmented space.
The Private Equity Info Research Database shows 175 platform portfolio companies held by private equity firms in the Dental space. These companies are collectively held by 159 private equity firms.
The trending private equity investment sectors for July 2021 were Food & Beverage, SaaS Business Services and Manufacturing – Industrial Products.
Sample transactions are highlighted below.
Our Private Equity Info Research Database shows 228 portfolio companies held by private equity firms in the Supply Chain space, with PE firms showing a substantial increased interest in Supply Chain companies in recent years.
The graph below shows the trend of private equity platform investments in Supply Chain companies over the last 20 years.
Private equity firms acquired 40 Intelligence companies as platform investments in the first half of 2021 (plus a number of add-on acquisitions).
Although Intelligence companies span a spectrum of applications and end markets, many of the 2021 Intelligence acquisitions group into three categories:
The trending private equity investment sectors for June 2021 were Healthcare Services, IT Solutions and Software Security.
We highlighted the sub-sector Software Security because there were multiple transactions in this segment. It’s worth noting that software companies, in general, represented 22% of private equity platform acquisitions in June.
Sample transactions are highlighted below.
Based on acquisition criteria, we have grouped the private equity firms by the typical deal size they seek to acquire. In terms of Enterprise Value…
The graph below shows the median number of current portfolio companies held for PE firms in each deal-size range.
Previously, we ranked the private equity firms based on the number of platform acquisitions per deal maker at the firm – a deal efficiency ranking of sorts.
Below, is a ranking of the private equity firms based on the number of platform acquisitions in the first half of 2021.
Instead of providing a general list of the Top 10 Private Equity Firms with the largest, well-known firms, I wanted to identify formidable acquirers that may be lesser-known. To do this, I normalized the number of platform acquisitions for each firm (over the last 12 months) by the number of deal makers at each firm (titles of Vice President and higher).
The lists below show the top 10 most acquisitive private equity firms per deal maker, grouped into categories by deal team size.
The trending private equity investment sectors for May 2021 were Software, Manufacturing, and Retail. Sample transactions are highlighted below.
Years ago, we reported on the trend of private equity firms moving down market, closing smaller deals and moving away from the more competitive landscape of the larger deal space.
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To see the effects of this trend now, I grouped the private equity firms from our M&A Research Database into four categories, based on the enterprise value of their typical platform acquisitions (add-on investments excluded).
Interestingly, approximately half of the private equity firms now focus on smaller deals, with an enterprise value range of $0 – $50 million.
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