United States Activity

Skyline Advisors serves family-owned and closely-held lower middle market companies across the United States.

We publish a national capital markets report covering mergers and acquisition (M&A), growth equity, and venture capital activity across the country. We also publish eight regional activity reports with more granular details on deal activity within these eight regions: Mountain, West Coast, Midwest, South, Great Lakes, Southeast, New England, and Mid Atlantic.

These reports are focused on financial and strategic buyers and investors in the middle and upper markets. They are not intended to cover main street / individual buyers activity.

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• The expected strengthening of the M&A market in 2025 continued in Q3 2025
• Private equity-backed acquisitions held strong at 43% of total M&A deal value in the trailing twelve months, compared to 43% in 2024
• Banks have re-entered the market and are competing with non-bank lenders that filled in during their absence
• Buyers continue to come off the sidelines in what appears to be broad-based activity across industries and company size tiers
• Valuations have normalized near pre-pandemic levels
• Growth equity and expansion investment by private equity increased QoQ
• Venture capital deal counts and aggregate values increased slightly from the prior quarter, and are trending up over last couple years - driven by significant AI investment activity