Bain & Co.: Private equity downturn “rearranged established rules, reset expectations and planted the seeds of PE’s next phase”
| Apr 18th, 2010 | Filed under: Private Equity, Today's Post | By: Guest |
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By: Konstantin Danilov, AllAboutAlpha.com Editorial Board
PE in 2009: What happened?
As the global economic crisis began to abate in 2009, private equity continued to face challenges as anemic leveraged-loan markets, decreased fundraising levels, and increasingly higher deal valuations led to strikingly lower levels of deal volume. A recently released report by Bain & Company details the year’s events. (Ed: This report contains a metric tonne of charts and data and is a must-read for anyone trying to conduct a post-mortem on 2009.) More…
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