Inflation and geopolitical uncertainty may have taken away the punch early in the M&A party overall, but how has private equity fared in the ongoing market tumult? While deal values and volumes have fallen slightly in the wider market, financial sponsors continue to fare well. Transactions by value fell a modest 4 percent in 1Q22 versus the same period last year, data from S&P Global Market Intelligence show, and actually rose 6 percent to $99.8 billion in April over the same period last year.

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