fewer than 200 investors triggered almost 900 acquisitions.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
a multiplier that has grown fourfold since 2021 reveals a transformation driven not by new private equity entrants, but by platform firms consuming the mid-market at speed.
it belies the notion that pe is taking over the accounting profession. in fact, new global research argues that local and mid-size firms worldwide are taking control of their own futures and using institutional capital to pick up the tab.
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the numbers that define private equity’s advance into accounting do not look the way most people expect. the headlines feature the big firms and the brand-name investors — towerbrook capital and eisneramper, new mountain capital and grant thornton, ares management and baker tilly. but the actual architecture of the transformation is being built one level below: in the relentless, largely unnoticed roll-up of smaller practices into pe-backed platforms.
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