| | Europe leads global M&A performance in 2019
In this week’s newsletter, we take a look at the latest Willis Towers Watson’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QDPM), run in partnership with Cass Business School, which reveals that Europe is the only region worldwide to have recorded positive M&A performance in 2019. The continent’s dealmakers marginally outperformed their regional index by +0.6pp (percentage points) over the last 12 months.
On other research out this week, provisional full-year data from the CMBOR at Imperial College Business School, sponsored by Equistone Partners Europe and Investec Corporate and Investment Banking, reveals that Europe’s private equity industry has shifted into buying mode, deploying large pools of capital while delaying exits.
And speaking of deals, we have news of Montagu Private Equity’s acquisition of Jane’s, and the acquisition of cybersecurity specialist Coalface by funds advised by Apax Partners.
And on the funds front, there’s details of the closing of the latest offerings from CapStreet Group and Omega Funds at USD500 million and USD438 million, respectively…
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| | ADVERTISEMENT | | | | | | | | European dealmakers top global M&A rankings for second consecutive year | | Wed | 18 Dec 2019, 12:34 | | Europe is the only region worldwide to have recorded positive M&A performance in 2019, with European dealmakers marginally outperforming their regional index by +0.6pp (percentage points) over the last 12 months, according to the latest results from Willis Towers Watson’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QDPM), run in partnership with Cass Business School. |
| | | | Private equity puts dry powder to work as industry shifts into buying mode | | Wed | 18 Dec 2019, 12:34 | | Europe’s private equity industry has shifted into buying mode, deploying large pools of capital while delaying exits, according to provisional full-year data from the CMBOR at Imperial College Business School, sponsored by Equistone Partners Europe and Investec Corporate and Investment Banking. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | CapStreet Group closes USD500m Fund V | | Wed | 18 Dec 2019, 12:34 | | The CapStreet Group (CapStreet), a Houston, Texas based private equity firm that invests in privately held, lower middle-market companies, has held the final closing of CapStreet V, at its hard cap, with total commitments of USD500 million. |
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