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Article: $6 Billion and Growing: That's how much private equity firms have invested in accounts receivable management deals; expect more money and more deals ahead.
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- Collections & Credit Risk
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- October 1, 2006
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Private equity firms have invested approximately $3.3 billion in transactions in the Accounts Receivable Management (ARM) industry since May 2005, with more than $2.4 billion of that invested so far in 2006. Tracking deals back to the mid-1990s, that investment easily exceeds $6 billion.
This interest is fueling what is already a record-breaking deal year in the ARM industry, far surpassing any other year in the industry's history.
With three large public-to-private transactions announced within a three-week span earlier this summer, the buzz of many industry conversations surrounds these deals as people consider why private equity is so prevalent in ...