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Hot Industries for 2009
Written by Richard Jackim   

A recent survey of private equity professionals conducted by the Association for Corporate Growth found that most private equity firms believe there will be a significant decrease of M&A activity in 2009.  These professionals believe the greatest obstacle to M&A activity is:

  • credit crunch (43%);
  • owners unwilling to sell at realistic multiples (22%); and
  • the weak economy (16%).

Nonetheless, these  same investors said that they believed that the most M&A activity in the next six months with be in:

  • financial services (30%);
  • healthcare and life sciences (20%);
  • energy (12%); and
  • manufacturing and distribution (12%). 
 

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