{"id":67733,"date":"2019-01-28T01:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67733"},"modified":"2019-01-30T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:33:15","slug":"a-bumper-year-for-private-equity-buyout-deals-in-2018-preqin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2019\/a-bumper-year-for-private-equity-buyout-deals-in-2018-preqin.html","title":{"rendered":"A bumper year for private equity buyout deals in 2018: Preqin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) A total of 5,106 private equity-backed buyout deals were announced through 2018, an all-time record, building on the previous record of 4,829 seen in 2017, said a latest report by Preqin. According to Preqin Insights the total value of these deals also rose to reach $456bn &#8211; this is close to the $460bn seen in 2015, and may surpass it given that Preqin expects these figures to rise by up to 5% as more information becomes available. Nonetheless, 2018 remains some way off the all-time record deal values seen immediately prior to the Global Financial Crisis: 2007 recorded $700bn in deal making from 3,877 deals, said the report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/671997\/A_bumper_year_for_private_equity_buyout_deals199.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) A total of 5,106 private equity-backed buyout deals were announced through 2018, an all-time record, building on the previous record of 4,829 seen in 2017, said a latest report by Preqin. According to Preqin Insights the total value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67734,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67733\/revisions\/67734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}