PitchBook：2024年欧洲私募股权市场分析报告（英文版）

If we had to pick one word to summarise European PE in 2024, it would be recovery. Annual PE deal value increased 35.4% YoY while annual deal count increased 18.2% YoY, marking the third-best year of dealmaking in European PE after 2021 and 2022. More importantly, dealmaking recovered from the subdued levels seen in 2023 despite a regime change in the UK, political instability in Germany and France, an ongoing war in Ukraine, and elevated interest rates affecting borrowing costs and the use o