Advisors The Rise of the Deal Origination Team Over the years the data has shown that private equity shops with large, proactive, outbound origination programs are also top-quartile…
Debt Funds: The Darlings of the Industry The M&A market has been booming for quite some time now. Over the past few years, traditional institutional investors have…
Private Equity Minority Investing Reaches All-Time High It used to be business owners sold their companies outright to a strategic acquirer or a financial buyer, or handed…
Business Owners Why Every CEO Should Focus on Sales Michael Sala is a managing director at private equity firm LLR Partners, where he looks for ways to drive value…
Private Equity Why This LP Hunts in the Lower Middle Market It’s not very often that you find limited partners who are interested in backing companies and private equity firms in…
Private Equity A Robust First Half for PE All things private equity remain healthy. According to PitchBook’s report on U.S. PE in the Middle Market, 654 U.S middle…
Private Equity PennSpring Finds the Right Deal Finding and winning the right deal at the right price is extremely difficult in today’s ultra competitive M&A environment. That’s…
Family Offices Family Offices Continue Quest to Go Direct Today’s M&A environment is as fierce as ever. Even the most venerable private equity firms admit that it’s tough to…
Business Owners CEOs, Do Your Due Diligence, Don’t Just Respond to Theirs It used to be business owners sold their companies outright to a strategic acquirer or a financial buyer or handed…