Coronavirus Private Equity Environment

We currently just liquidated a portfolio company that manufactures paper goods for a huge premium given the influx of demand near the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic... Has anyone else seen any private equity transactions that have benefited from coronavirus?

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The buyer is going to be pissed when they look back in two years and see that their multiple just decreased a couple of turns just because they bought it in a hot market...

 

Exits (good for buyer): "Permira sells into strength at remote connectivity play TeamViewer" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-teamviewer-stocks/permira-sells-into…

Entries (good for seller): "Air Liquide sells hand sanitiser business to private equity group [EQT]" https://www.ft.com/content/18ce173a-5ce6-4f09-8439-ef4a2dd8ab34

Hold period (good for buyer): Blackstone - ServPro https://www.franchising.com/news/20200518_servpro_launches_new_cleaning…

 

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