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Partners Group Holding AG CEO David Layton said back in July that he expected the slowdown in private equity-backed M&A activity to "persist through the end of the summer." That timeline has been extended.
Layton tacked three to six months onto his prediction when Partners Group reported first-half earnings Aug. 30. Market volatility since the start of the year raised questions about valuations that have yet to be resolved, he said.
"I wouldn't say that there is a robust market of buyers and sellers that are kind of on the same page," Layton said. "I think we're still at the tail end of sellers being able to sell yesterday's prices because there are still some aggressive buyers. But I don't think we're far off either. I think we're maybe a quarter or two away from having some more reasonable eye-to-eye discussion."
Layton was responding to an...
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