The digital transformation of every business, from automotive through to healthcare, is driving record mergers and acquisitions deal valuations in the enterprise software and IT services sectors as companies incorporate disruptive technologies into their business models and shift to the cloud, all whilst having to secure themselves against cyber threats.

The European M&A market remained buoyant throughout 2017 against a backdrop of political uncertainty, including national elections in France, Germany, UK and the Netherlands, according to the tenth edition of the CMS European M&A Study. The study, which analyses more than 3,650 of its private M&A transactions and compares the

Misalignment of priorities is causing significant friction between private equity firms and the CEOs and other senior managers of their portfolio companies, according to a new survey of leaders at both PE firms and portfolio companies by AlixPartners. CEO turnover at portfolio companies is unplanned 34 per cent of the

Drawdown rates for private equity funds are slowing, with managers taking longer to call down funds than they have in the past, according to data released by PitchBook from its PitchBook Benchmarks performance measurement product. PE funds historically have called down more than 80 per cent of commitments by the

GAMMA Capital Management’s (GAMMA) inaugural ‘Tourism in Iceland’ report shows that the growing tourism market in Iceland is providing infrastructure investment opportunities for institutional investors. Tourism, driven mainly by American visitors, is Iceland’s biggest generator of hard currency and export growth. Since 2010, it accounts for the largest share of

Analysis by data and analytics company GlobalData of the investment activity of the top 10 global venture capital (VC) companies in 2017, reveals that collectively they invested more money on fewer deals when compared to the average numbers for 2013-2016. Naveen Kalluri, Financial Deals Analyst at GloblalData says: “The drop

The private debt industry has seen a steady increase in the number of investors active in the asset class in recent years. At the start of 2018 there were 3,100 institutions investing in private debt, up from 2,400 at the start of the previous year and an increase of 1,200

Research by international law firm Pinsent Masons has found that the number of private equity backed IPOs increased by almost a third in 2017 compared to the previous year, from 16 to 21. The firm also found that the GBP3.1 billion raised was more than double the amount raised in