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American Investors Buy Up the German Mittelstand: Deals Worth Tens of Billions of Dollars

According to PitchBook, in 2025 investors from the US took part in 76 deals involving German industrial companies worth about $29.5 billion — nearly twice as much as in 2022. Among the high-profile deals are the sale of ebm-papst to Madison Air for $5.4 billion and the purchase of BASF Coatings by the Carlyle fund together with QIA for €7.7 billion. Experts link the interest to the absence of heirs among family business owners and moderate company valuations.

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