Healthcare-focused private equity is on the brink of a record year. Capital has flowed into the sector, with healthcare-focused private equity-backed buyout deals seeing year-on-year increases in aggregate deal value since 2015. 2018 saw the announcement of the largest healthcare-focused deal since …

The maturation of the secondaries market has led to a greater number of GPs proactively exploring their liquidity options. The growing number of experienced secondary market players has therefore resulted in more complex and niche transactions – particularly GP restructurings. According to Preqin’s …

Private equity buyout firms are on course to make more investments in the technology sector in 2018 than in any year prior. As at November there have been 1,079 tech-focused private equity-backed buyout deals announced globally, approaching the record of 1,096 set the previous year. In fact, the num…

In Q3 2018, 506 infrastructure transactions were completed for an estimated aggregate value of $239bn – as shown in the chart below. The 24% decrease in the number of deals compared with Q2 2018 reflects the ongoing challenge of sourcing attractive infrastructure assets. By contrast, the slight incr…

Q3 2018 saw 3,894 venture capital-backed deals announced worth a total of $69bn. This brings total year-to-date deal making to $195bn, meaning that the first three quarters of 2018 have already surpassed 2017’s full-year record of $189bn in venture capital deals. Deal activity in North America and …

There were 1,205 private equity-backed buyout deals announced in Q3 2018, worth a combined $93bn. Preqin expects these figures to rise by up to 5% as more information becomes available, but nonetheless the quarter seems unlikely to match the $129bn announced through 1,274 deals in Q2. Deals made in…

The Canadian Government set out $180bn long-term infrastructure plans in its 2016 and 2017 budgets, in a time when the infrastructure economy is facing an estimated gap of $150bn to $1tn. These overarching policies were created to boost the infrastructure market, and already seem to be having a posi…

The aggregate capital raised by buyout fund managers in 2017 reached a 10-year high of $282bn, with over half (54%) of the capital raised by 15 mega funds. Fundraising has been driven by record-high net distributions: since 2011, private equity distributions have outstripped capital calls, giving LP…