The first quarter of 2023 marked the fifth in an unprecedented string of quarterly pullbacks in private equity investment. According to Bloomberg data, no other drop in the aggregate volume of PE-backed deals has ever run longer than three quarters.
In Q1 2023, M&A deals slowed to $559 billion across approximately 12,200 deals, amounting to the third-lowest M&A deal volume in a single quarter this decade. $181.8 billion of that amount, covering some 4,200 deals, involved at least one PE firm. That marks a 17% decrease in the volume of private equity deals from $218.7 billion in Q4 2022, and ...
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