May 20, 2025
Private Equity Value Creation Report Europe 2025
Rewriting Playbooks: Private Equity Value Creation and Exits in 2025
Our latest Private Equity Value Creation report offers a timely window into the state of European private equity (PE) in 2025. The annual report explores the major issues affecting the PE industry today, including the persistent delay in exits and the challenge of unlocking value from aging portfolios in a macro environment of volatility and uncertainty. Now in its fourth edition in Europe, the report is based on a survey with 200 PE executives and portfolio company managers across Europe, and features actionable insights from A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement experts on how to navigate the industry’s challenges. | 
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Key Value Creation Report 2025 highlights:
- How PE is tackling delayed exits: whether it’s refinancing and extending value creation plans, or using the secondaries market for partial exits to improve immediate liquidity;
- Funds’ swift response to tariffs: most investors and portfolio companies are adjusting their value creation plans in response to the tariff announcements, by ramping up execution and exploring alternative supply chain strategies;
- A more balanced approach to value creation: funds are prioritising a mix of revenue growth, working capital/cash and cost optimisation initiatives to drive value in a more challenging macro backdrop;
- AI deployment in value creation: there’s significant progress in AI planning and implementation to support value creation, with data analysis and insights and customer experience enhancement emerging as key use cases;
- The slowdown in execution: a majority of value creation programmes developed over the last two remains remain far from fully realised.
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