PRINT THIS PAGE BVCA Private Equity and Venture Capital Report on Investment Activity 2007 - summary of results27/06/2008. Source: The BVCA – The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
This 2007 annual report on investment activity is based on a full set of responses from the BVCA’s entire membership. The data within it has been collated and analysed by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Total investment by BVCA member firms, which represent the vast majority of the private equity and venture capital assets managed in the UK, reached £31.6 billion in 2007. This was a sizeable increase on the 2006 total of £21.9 billion, notwithstanding the turmoil in capital markets
witnessed in the second half of 2007.
The 2007 figure includes assets managed by a number of new BVCA members. Consequently, it is not precisely comparable on a like-for-like basis with the 2006 results. However, excluding the increase in membership (which has swelled assets by £1.7 billion), the growth in
investment is £8 billion, or 37%.
The number of companies financed rose from 1,630 in 2006 to 1,680. But this, again, partly reflects a jump in BVCA membership from 192 to 214.
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The BVCA – The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association – is the industry body for the UK private equity and venture capital industry. With membership of well over 400 members, the organisation represents the overwhelming number of UK-based private equity and venture capital providers and their advisers. The BVCA has 25 years of experience representing the industry, which currently accounts for 57 per cent of the whole of the European market, to government, the European Commission and Parliament, the media, regulatory and other statutory bodies at home, across Europe and around the world. The organisation promotes the industry to entrepreneurs and investors, as well as providing services and best practice standards to members. For more details, visit www.bvca.co.uk.
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