The Deal Room: The IPO market starts to thaw & CVC Capital Partners raises €26bn for the largest buyout fund in history
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The Underpriced Carver IPO
The IPO market, which has slumped over the last 12 to 18 months, is starting potentially to tick back up again. And actually after every recent kind of bubble to crash, there has been an exit event for private equity sponsors. There's quite a necessity to recover quickly because investors can only hold investments on assets for two years or so. But as soon as you start eking out profits in that time period, it becomes really fun from a private equity perspective. That's not way beyond fail in terms of looking at other breakout tech companies that actually make money in the public markets.
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