Green Companies Not Seeing Much Buyout Interest
Is this surprising? Probably not. Green is such a buzzword these days that I’ve heard a number of people express fears of a backlash. I'm not talking about venture investing, I’m talking about plain, vanilla M&A, where there hasn’t been much of a surge of interest to backlash against! By and large, green M&A is still waiting for its day. A feature from mergermarket reports that the “groundswell of interest” in environmentally friendly building materials and processes has been slow to translate to M&A activity. "Obstacles to M&A could include the generally difficult construction market, a skepticism about the profitability of green products and the difficulty in defining what really counts as green." Aside from the first one, those obstacles apply to most green buyout targets. So how does PE activity fare?
