CVC Capital now eyes 2024 for new attempt to go public

Luxembourg-headquartered CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe’s biggest private equity firms, on Wednesday decided to postpone its initial public offering on the Amsterdam stock exchange, a person familiar with the decision has confirmed. The firm now is looking for a new opportunity to go public in 2024.

Where is the next Silicon Valley Bank?

Interest rates are shooting up and in some cases have reached the highest levels in decades. The share prices of US regional banks are collapsing again. And yet reports of new collapsing banks remain absent. Why?

Deposits!

The chart below provides the answer to that question. Despite continued competition with money market funds, deposits of smaller US banks are steadily increasing. Compared to a year ago, there has been a modest growth of 2 per cent.

‘Private credit will eclipse equity in the next decade’

Despite rapid development, private credit is still in its very early growth stages. Despite macroeconomic and cyclical challenges, Jiři Król, the deputy CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association, sees private credit catching up to the much larger private equity in the next 10 years. He also sees huge potential development from the reformed European long-term investment fund vehicle (Eltif).

Private equity investors dismiss valuation chatter as ‘noise’

Despite declining valuations in private equity, Schroders Capital’s European private equity chief Richard Damming remains confident, dismissing concerns as mere industry «noise».

In the face of fluctuating private equity valuations, Damming reassures that they remain undeterred. «You sell a company at the price you want to sell it for, and otherwise you don’t sell it,» says the head of Schroders› European PE branch.