(Adnkronos) - In occasione della cerimonia di premiazione della XXI edizione del Premio Claudio Dematté Private Equity of the Year, tenutasi al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci di Milano, EY Italia ha commentato i principali trend e sviluppi del settore della private equity nei primi undici mesi del 2024 e le prospettive per il mercato nel 2025. Un focus importante anche sulla rilevanza della value creation che oggi trova nella trasformazione operativa un aspetto sempre più cruciale. L’edizione 2024 del riconoscimento è stata organizzata dall'Aifi - Associazione italiana del private equity, con il supporto di EY.
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00:00On the occasion of the awarding ceremony of the 21st edition of the Claudio De Matteo Award,
00:09Private Equity of the Year, organized by the Italian Association of Private Equity with the support of EY
00:14and held at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan,
00:18EY Italia commented on the main trends and developments in the private equity sector in the first 11 months of 2024.
00:25In 2024, if we look at the results until November, it shows that there has been a digital recovery
00:32of the private equity operations that have recorded a plus 20%.
00:37Although then, if you look at it in terms of value, it has been reduced for a moment
00:42because the average value of the operation has gone from 80 to 50 million euros.
00:46As for the sectors mainly involved, we are talking about industrial,
00:52which is the typical sector of which the Italian economy is characterized, which is about a quarter,
00:57then we have the retail sector and the technology sector with 17 and 16% respectively.
01:03In 2024, more than 40% of M&A operations were led by funds.
01:09The awarding ceremony was in fact the opportunity not only to celebrate the operations that took place
01:14over the year, but also to assess the importance that funds have in the Italian economy.
01:20The awards tell us how the operators have evolved over the years.
01:25Today they are partners that accelerate the transformation of companies.
01:30There will be several awards this evening, the Venture Capital category,
01:34Venture Capital is very important for the Italian sector, still in the consolidation phase,
01:40but there are new operators that are entering the market and the operations that are awarded this evening
01:45are an example of how Italian engineering can then transform into a business.
01:50An important element in this context is also the creation of value.
01:54In recent years, Value Creation has been focusing more and more on operational transformation,
01:59a trend intercepted and brought to the ground by Huawei.
02:02We are accompanying Portfolio Company in an ever more innovative way than in the past.
02:09We are accompanying the classic methodologies of Operations Improvement,
02:14Manufacturing Improvement, Supply Chain, Purchases, Pricing and so on,
02:21with the world of technology, the world of Artificial Intelligence, increasingly integrated.
02:29Our approach to ESG has changed a lot over time.
02:33Now it has become a real lever of creation and value that is applied in almost all of our transformative processes.