Volume up, deal value down
Middle-class demand
MUCH HAS BEEN made of the fantastic growth opportunities for private equity in central and eastern Europe but there might be more obstacles than many in the market have expected. Depending on who you talk to, the CEE private equity market is a stable source of great opportunity with relatively high returns and no sub-prime exposure or a risky market that requires overly heavy investment of capital and time and that may be more exposed to the credit crunch than many investors realize.
For now, the numbers support the optimistic case. According to ISI Emerging Markets, which gathers financials and company data for more than 70 countries, there were almost 170 private equity deals in CEE in 2007, with an overall deal value of some $10.1 billion. (This figure does not include numbers for Russia and other CIS countries, such as Ukraine, Belarus...
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