A total of 476 private equity deals were announced or completed in Italy in the first nine months of 2026, 159 of them in the third quarter alone. That is already 63.7% of the 747 deals mapped in the whole of 2025, with the final quarter, traditionally the busiest for closings, still to come. The figures come from BeBeez Private Data, BeBeez’s private capital database.
Investments in healthy companies totalled 421, already 65.1% of the 647 recorded in the whole. . .
