Category: Insights

SEATTLE, April 08, 2025 – We’re excited to announce that The Rainier Group is now Coldstream Capital Partners. This rebranding is part of a process that aims to better reflect a strategic alignment to expand services, enhance expertise, and improve operational efficiency for clients by integrating Coldstream Capital Partners’ offerings into Coldstream’s comprehensive financial services platform. [...]

After a challenging 2022 and 2023, 2024 marked a significant rebound in global M&A activity, with total deal value rising as macroeconomic conditions stabilized, even as deal volume declined. Valuations found firmer footing, and capital markets reopened for deal-making, leading to a double-digit increase in total PE deal value YoY. While overall transaction count decreased, [...]

2023 was a year with plenty of challenges for private equity and M&A as a whole: PE capital deployed in the US declined by 29.5% on the year and value derived decreased by 26.4% PE borrowing rates have remained high and are still near double the levels at which they stood at the start of [...]

2022 was a year with plenty of challenges for private equity and M&A as a whole: The growing valuations of late 2021 were stunted by the fastest-tightening cycle in 40-plus years. PE borrowing rates increased to double the levels at which they stood at the start of 2022 and are well into the double digits. [...]

2020 was a year with plenty of challenges and disruption; it was also a year that fostered creativity and resiliency. While we currently sit in a race between effective vaccine rollouts and another wave of the virus, the country is continuing to digest the lasting impact of the last 12months. The M&A environment has shown [...]