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The Weekend Pitch
April 17, 2022
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British media personality Georgia Toffolo at a Shein event in London. (Antony Jones/Getty Images)
Memo to ESG investors: Buy into opportunities in the fashion industry at your own peril.

If you're seeking a portfolio of companies that manage risk around issues like environmental degradation and treatment of workers, you may want to look elsewhere. The global fashion and apparel industry isn't exactly a poster child for business sustainability.

Fast fashion, the segment that rapidly pumps out low-priced trendy clothing, is under fire for production practices linked to water pollution and worker exploitation. Now, the industry is getting fresh attention amid word that one of its biggest stars, China's Shein, is raising new capital at a reported $100 billion valuation.

I'm Alexander Davis, and in this edition of The Weekend Pitch we'll look at why the fast-fashion industry poses hazards, but also opportunities, for ESG-focused investors. You can reach me at alec.davis@pitchbook.com or @alecdavis on Twitter.
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"The deadline I set was over, but if I get a good offer, I might accept it, I might never sell it."

—Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi told CoinDesk after his NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet received a top bid of just under $280. Estavi purchased the NFT for $2.9 million last year.

Deal Flow
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Last year saw a significant rebound in investment in the hospitality and leisure sector, with $55.14 billion transacted across 342 deals, including Blackstone's buyout of UK holiday group Bourne Leisure.

By comparison, 2020 saw only $35 billion across 223 deals, a big drop from a pre-pandemic peak of $59.75 billion across 363 deals in 2019.

Read more about leisure and hospitality's rebound from pandemic lows.

Did you know ...

... That after a blistering 2021, PE dealmaking activity got off to a lukewarm start in 2022. During Q1, PE dealmakers closed 2,166 deals for a combined $330.8 billion, still representing an increase in deal count and value from Q1 2021's figures.

The threat of further escalations, sanctions and supply chain disruptions due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed dealmakers to hit pause for several weeks.

Our US PE Breakdown also explores how the invasion wreaked havoc in lending markets, with tens of billions of dollars in syndicated loans for LBOs left parked on bank balance sheets in the US and Europe.

Datapoints
Private equity firms were first granted access to stakes in NBA teams in January 2021, following an initiative led by league commissioner Adam Silver. Previously, individuals associated with a firm could own stakes or entire teams, but whole PE firms couldn't take part.

Under the new league rules, PE firms can own up to 20% of a single NBA franchise, and no team can collectively have greater than 30% of its ownership in the hands of multiple firms.

Check out our visualization of the NBA's private investment ties.
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This edition of The Weekend Pitch was written by Alexander Davis and Ryan Prete. It was edited by Chris Noble and Sam Steele.

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