Simpson Thacher attorneys contributed to the 2025 edition of Lexology Panoramic Next: Private Equity. Partners Michael Chao, Mark Myott, Peter H. Gilman and Jessica O’Connell, and Associates Faisal Ajam, Russell Reed and Henry Litwhiler were the contributing editors and co-authored the “Global Overview” and “USA” chapters.
The “Global Overview” chapter reviewed private equity M&A and fundraising activity in the first half of this year, providing insights into robust investor demand despite facing macroeconomic uncertainty in the markets, and provided an outlook for the second half of 2025. The chapter discussed the private equity M&A environment in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions, detailing how debt financing markets, portfolio company sales and public listings and H1 private equity fundraising fared during that time. The “USA” chapter, which was in Q&A format, discussed trends in private equity buyouts and investments, recent keynote deals, cross-border transactions, trends in financing for private equity transactions, the legal, regulatory and policy landscape, exit activity, trends in the fundraising market, and other topics.
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