Private equity deals continue decline
2013 volume falls to US$11.4b, the lowest since 2005
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PRIVATE equity (PE) deal-making activity in the region saw another down year in 2013, with firms closing 900 deals, totalling US$11.4 billion in disclosed private equity investments, according to latest figures from Thomson Reuters.
That is a 46 per cent decline from 2012, and also the lowest annual period for PE investments in the Asia-Pacific ex-Japan region since 2005 (US$8.8 billion).
PE investments in selected South-east Asian countries, however, grew. Singapore, in particular, saw a 25 per cent rise in disclosed PE investments in 2013 - 59 deals totalling US$639.6 million - compared with 2012.
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