4Q 2018 EisnerAmper PE Insights: How PE's institutionalization is driving M&A

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Will PE activity ever account for half of all M&A worldwide? That's hard to believe, but for the past few years, PE buyers have quietly become an ever-more important driver of aggregate M&A volume. There are multiple factors underpinning the rising importance of PE fund managers as dealmakers, but the most important can be summed up in one sentence: PE is simply growing more institutionalized. What does that entail? In EisnerAmper's brand-new PE Insights publication, their industry experts review PitchBook datasets to break down not only how this happened but what it portends for both fund managers, their dealmaking prospects in future and more. Highlights include:

  • Analysis of quarterly M&A volume and PE's growing proportion of volume

  • A Q&A with John Ruckstuhl, EisnerAmper managing director, on the lateness of the M&A cycle and how the PE market is evolving

  • Median & average PE deal sizes

  • Trends across deal sizes & sectors

  • A spotlight on the critical component of PE dealmaking in the current landscape: add-ons


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