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The private equity industry generated another impressive surge in investment value in 2018. Although fierce competition and rising asset prices pushed the number of individual deals down 13% to 2,936 worldwide, global buyout value jumped 10% to $582 billion (including add-on deals). That brought the total since 2014 to $2.5 trillion, the strongest five-year run in the industry’s history.
Bain partner Hugh MacArthur is a director in the firm’s Boston office and head of Bain’s Global Private Equity practice.
Private Equity: Still Booming, but Is the Cycle Near Its End?
Deal count declines, but value jumps to a five-year record.