Private Equity Targets U.K. Firms at Fastest Pace Since 2008 Crisis
- Firms strike $18.3 billion of British take-privates this year
- Volume boosted by flurry of deals after brief lull in April
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Private equity firms are snapping up U.K. companies at a rate not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis.
Buyout firms have spent $18.3 billion on takeovers of publicly-traded British targets this year, according to data complied by Bloomberg. At this rate of investment, they will surpass the $27.5 billion of such transactions struck in 2019, which was a post-crisis high, the data show.