Bain & Co released 2023 Global PE Markets Mid-Year Update
Bain & Company’s Private Equity Midyear Report 2023 shows that after four quarters of relative inactivity, investors have ample incentive to get moving. With the clock ticking on a record $3.7 trillion in dry powder and buyout funds sitting on $2.8 trillion of unexited assets, limited partners (LPs) are feeling a liquidity crunch.
Hao Zhou
Head of Greater China PE and M&A practices
Past cycles have shown that for dealmaking to rebound and continue, buyers and sellers need a reasonably stable economic environment – not necessarily an attractive one. And while investors need confidence in the five-year outlook for an industry and a company, a clearer picture is finally emerging. The global private equity market is hopefully stabilizing.
A recent survey revealed that most LPs are more inclined to choose liquidity today rather than hold out for incremental gains. This suggests that the industry's primary focus in the months ahead will be restarting the capital flywheel by increasing distributions to LPs—whether through exits, general partner (GP)-led secondaries, recaps, or other liquidity solutions.
“Unwarranted” concerns about too much dry powder
A $2.8 trillion exit backlog
Investments: Buyout funds generated globally hit $202 billion in deal value during the first half of 2023, a 58% decline from the first half of 2022. Annualized, it netted out to be a 41% drop from 2022’s total. The 863 deals closed over the first half signal a 29% full-year decline from the pace in 2022, with add-ons continuing to represent a significant share of the global buyout market, accounting for 9% of total deal value in the first half of the year and 56% of deal count.
Exits: GPs are feeling significantly more pressure on the sell side. Buyout managers have a backlog of unrealized assets that has slowed distributions to investors. Over the year’s first half, buyout-backed exits fell to $131 billion, a 65% decline from the same period a year ago. On an annualized basis, exit value is tracking down 54%, and exit count is off 30% compared to 2022. With about 26,000 portfolio companies sitting in buyout funds for almost six years, GPs need a schedule and a strategy to unlock the $2.8 trillion in unrealized value those companies represent. Most of those assets are coming up against, or have passed, the typical five-year timeframe for a private equity exit. Nearly one quarter have been held for longer than six years, and more than half have been held for more than four years.
Fund-raising: After a decade of growth in private capital fund-raising, with nearly $12 trillion raised since 2012, 2023 fundraising has been unsurprisingly challenging. LPs remain in a cyclical squeeze, with a large amount of existing unfunded commitments, cash flow in negative territory due to the sharp decline in exits, and a notable supply/demand imbalance as nearly 14,000 private capital funds compete for an aggregate $3.3 trillion in capital. The value of global private capital raised in the first six months fell to $517 billion, a 35% decline from the same period a year ago. On an annualized basis, global private capital fund-raising is on trend to drop 28% in terms of value and 43% in terms of funds closed compared to full-year 2022. Fund-raising data can be a lagging indicator that might make the current environment seem better than what GPs are experiencing. This can be because some funds closing today were launched or committed to under better circumstances in 2021 or 2022. An even more forward-looking indicator is the current level of supply and demand. This current slowdown in available capital has come as a shock and increased competition is pressing funds to professionalize their capital-raising capabilities.
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