Deals
Private Equity Reopens Checkbook for $85 Billion US Deal Spree
- Banks show renewed appetite for financing leveraged buyouts
- Software deals at the heart of recent dealmaking run in US
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Private equity firms are back to spending big in their hunt for public US companies.
They have struck almost $85 billion in deals this year involving listed US targets, according to data compiled by Bloomberg that cover transactions valued at $1 billion or more. That’s up by roughly half on the same point in 2023 and the second-highest year-to-date tally since 2010, the data show.