PE shifts to aggressively buying residential HVAC/trades businesses post-COVID

An M&A broker describes private equity firms growing far more aggressive about acquiring home-service/HVAC businesses after the sector was deemed 'pandemic proof,' with deal flow scarcer and competition for targets rising.

“So private equity, they raise private funds, they got to deploy this capital and invest. So they're now more aggressively looking to do these investments.”

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