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'We have seen a tremendous amount of growth in at-home consumption for breakfast, meal and snacking occasions,' said Brynwood's Henk Hartong.

After making 21 acquisitions over four years, LMP sold NAC to APCO Holdings earlier in January.

Vista Equity Partners agreed to acquire Duck Creek in a $2.6bn take-private deal announced earlier in January.

ThinkLP marks Alpine Software Group's 50th acquisition since 2016.

'We are not terribly concerned about demand in the near term because the needed investment in infrastructure is driving record levels of demand for Gannett and many of our peers in the market,' Benavides says.

'We are seeing a lot of onshore of American manufacturing, which is obviously going to benefit this business,' Lim said.

EQT’s investment comes at a time when there are growing fears of a recession that could affect the operation of renewable projects and slow the pace at which projects can be brought online.

'We look forward to a market where rational investors are appropriately rewarded for taking risk and building value,' he said.

'The reason why we think it [CrossCountry] will be resilient is that a lot of our services are not tied to those macro factors,' said Tayeh.