The Mergermarket Private Equity Podcast

As a tough year for the European private equity industry draws to an end, Mergermarket’s private funds editorial team gives a market overview and highlights key topics including the resilience of the mid-market, consolidation in the advisor space, and the popularity of co-investments.

Private equity dealmakers in the DACH region have been facing a plethora of challenges in 2022 and 2023 in particular. Funds editor Harriet Matthews discusses the 2024 outlook with HIG Capital’s Holger Kleingarn, and is also joined by Mergermarket’s DACH bureau chief Patrick Costello, who shares his insights on market sentiment and how dealflow is shaping up for 2024.

With corporates looking to divest non-core businesses and private equity investors placing a renewed emphasis on value creation, carve-outs are climbing the agenda for many GPs. Harriet Matthews and Min Ho explore the factors behind current dealflow, with a guest interview with Tristan Nagler, partner at Aurelius.

While current sentiment around private equity investment in the consumer sector is mixed due to its exposure to inflation and consumer demand, sponsors are still finding attractive opportunities to deploy. Advent International managing director Nicolas Chavanne joins the podcast to discuss the GP’s approach to investing, how it assesses the market, and how and why it aims to secu

Much has been made of Sweden's response to Covid-19 and the country's avoidance of stringent national lockdowns, but its private equity market remained as strong as in the previous year. Finland also performed well, in no small part due to its budding tech ecosystem, which will have been bolstered by the supercharged digitalisation trend.Unquote reporter Katharine Hidalgo welcomes

European private equity was hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, but GPs adapted swiftly by protecting their portfolios and switching their due diligence online. In DACH, however, records were broken on both ends of the market – with the most VC and growth investments in a year, and the region's largest buyout ever.Unquote reporter Katharine Hidalgo welcomes Unquote’s DACH marke

Amid a tough fundraising market with tight allocations and a slowdown in distributions, fund administrator Aztec Group’s managing director James Gow and head of innovation Tom Bennett bring their insights into capital raising and discuss the outlook for the year ahead.

Once again, the Clearwater International Multiples Heatmap reveals that average entry multiples broke new records in Q3, on the back of a still-buoyant M&A market. Deal-makers shrugged off concerns about inflation, supply chain constraints and rising Covid-19 cases to propel European PE activity to near-record highs.

Funds editor Harriet Matthews hosts senior reporter Gustav Hoejmark-Jensen to discuss the role that emerging managers are playing in green technology investing. Hoejmark-Jensen explores the topic in an interview with Kim Pochon, senior vice president at Unigestion, and Laurits Bach Sørensen, co-founder and senior partner at Nordic Alpha Partners (NAP).

In a series of 2020 reviews, Unquote dives into the data to discover how the various regions of Europe performed during the coronavirus crisis, and what GPs expect for the year ahead.France was one of the countries hit the hardest by the coronavirus early on in the pandemic, with a very strict lockdown severely impacting PE activity for most of Q2. However, it was also among the st