Private equity watches, waits

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on July 1, 2009 at 11:36 am

Buyout funds and other private-equity investors continue to raise money, but they also continue to slow the pace of putting that cash to work. In the health care sector so important to Nashville, the money invested in the second quarter was down 75 percent from a year ago.

The decrease in private equity investment is not due to a lack of available capital, which remains at an all time high of $400 billion. PE investors continue to raise capital and currently have enough dry powder to more than support the combined deal activity of 2004, 2005 and 2006 with the use of moderate leverage.

Check out PitchBook’s full set of numbers here.

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