2021 has been a really hot year for private equity in Italy already in the first half of the year, but especially in the last few months. By the end of June, the number of deals had already reached 64% of the total for 2020, i.e. 236 deals compared to 360 for the whole of last year and 131 deals in the first six months of 2020. But by the end of the year, it had reached as many as many as 497, up more than 38% from 360 deals in 2020 and more