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Size of average buyout deals grows smaller in 2021: Refinitiv data

Deals have been coming in at the rate of one every three days

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Sachin P Mampatta
Private equity players may be looking for smaller targets when going for buyouts, going by the trend so far this year.

A buyout is the purchase of a controlling share in a company. Private equity funds have been doing such transactions at the rate of one every three days so far in 2021. There have been 21 such deals this calendar year, shows data till the beginning of March from tracker Refinitiv, now part of the London Stock Exchange Group.

The total value of the deals so far is $664.4 million (as of March 5). This pegs the value per deal at