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Growth EPP Market Catches Spark
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After a sluggish start in 2015, growth equity private placement (EPP) issuers and investors set a brisk pace of deal making in February and ratcheted it up even more in March.
Growth Capitalist (https://growthcapitalist.com/tag/quarterly-market-review/page/2/)
After a sluggish start in 2015, growth equity private placement (EPP) issuers and investors set a brisk pace of deal making in February and ratcheted it up even more in March.
For much of 2014, growth equity private placement (EPP) activity had settled into a promising deal-making groove that was on pace to best 2013. But a spike in volatility in the fourth quarter slowed deal making and ushered in a ho-hum year-end performance.
Despite news that the economy grew at a rapid clip in the second quarter, the healthy pace of private investments in publicly traded growth companies in 2014 began to cool toward the end of the third quarter as worries about small cap stock performance and geopolitical events began to take their toll on investor psyches.
Equity private placement investors and emerging growth companies continued a brisk pace of deal making in the first half of 2014, maintaining momentum generated by a robust but toppy stock market and a growing appetite for risk.