Julien Lucas, a London-based director in the firm’s Industrial Growth Products investment banking group, was quoted in PEHub on the topic of private equity’s current interest in packaging sector companies and the market forces behind investments in these companies.

“Over the past 18 months, many of these groups have been more inwardly focused on addressing their own demand challenges but we are now in active dialog with strategics around their 2025 M&A pipeline,” he told the publication.