Private Equity Will Outperform Public Markets in 2016 Equity markets are expected to be volatile — or downright bearish — in 2016. Public and private markets were both…
How to Maximize Results When Working With an Investment Bank Working with an investment bank can be intimidating, especially if you’re new to the process. Most executives of small- and mid-sized…
Why It’s Time to Expand the Private Equity Investor Pool If PE has a stereotypical individual investor, it’s a 60-something Caucasian male who has been accredited for a while. It’s…
5 Questions for Investment Bankers on the First Call Recently, we featured an article about what investment bankers tend to ask CEOs on the first call. But what questions for…
What Is Seller Financing? PE firms often leverage target companies to increase the probability of reaching target returns. Leverage is a useful tool because…
How to Prevent Failed Mergers Private equity-driven M&A deals have an embarrassingly low success rate. This is understood within the industry, at least on a…
Everything Private Equity Should Know About the 2016 Presidential Candidates Private equity is an easy target for politicians. Most feel they can win brownie points with the general public by…
How Does the Public Market Affect Private Equity? History suggests that a rising public market is good for private capital fundraising, but bad for private equity returns. Mid-market…
Manufacturing Private Equity: Strong and Gaining Steam in Q4 2015 If 2015 has seen an overarching theme in the mid-market private equity space, it’s probably best described as “eagerness for…