Private equity firms are offering the highest premiums for listed companies in more than two decades, paying almost 70 per cent above the prior share price in some cases, in a sign of the widening gap between cash-rich buyout groups and public market investors.
Buyout groups paid an average premium of 45 per cent for European companies in 2021, the highest since the data company Refinitiv’s records began in 1980. In the US, the premiums hit 42 per cent this year, the highest since 1999.
UK-listed companies were taken private at an average premium of 47 per cent this year.
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