Permira’s Brian Ruder on private equity’s attraction to tech — and where he’s shopping now
March 16, 2017 at 18:19 PM EDT
For the last couple of years, private equity firms have been buying up software companies whose valuations dropped as tech fell out of favor with investors. In fact, many of the top software deals in the U.S. last year were take-private transactions by PE shops. Just three of them — the visual analytics company Qlik Technologies, which sold to Thomas Bravo; marketing software… Read More
