Focus of private equity investors in Europe 2019

The statistic displays the shifts in the focus of private equity investors in their business operations in 2019. With 32 percent, the majority of investors in 2019 claimed to be concentrating on developing portfolio companies. Another 25 percent expected to be making new investments in 2019.

Private equity investors focus on different lifecycle stages in Europe in 2019*

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Making new investments	25%
Developing portfolio companies	32%
Divesting existing investments	22%
Fundraising	12%
Extending existing funds	9%

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2019

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

2019

Number of respondents

2,500+

Special properties

professionals from leading private quity firms.

Supplementary notes

Distribution of responses in the sample: 23 percent from D-A-CH countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), 14 percent Italy, 15 percent from Scandinavia, 9 percent Benelux countries, 5 percent CEE, 11 percent United Kingdom, 11 percent France and 9 percent Pan-European.

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "On which phase of the PE value chain will you focus most in 2019?"

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