Lower Middle Market Weekly Outlook

Transactions:

• Moelis is planning an IPO
• Hain Celestial to buy Tilda
• Birlasoft acquires EnablePath
• Gladstone Capital invested $5.6 million to purchase Meridian Rack & Pinion
• PE-backed alphabroder acquires Ash City Worldwide
• H.I.G. Capital buys American Pacific Corp. for $392 million
• Pharos Capital acquires Seaside Healthcare
• Visteon Corporation to purchase the automotive electronics business of Johnson Controls
• Mega-deal: Suntory of Japan to buy Jim Beam for $13.6 billion

Events:

• Wednesday: The House Committee on Financial Services will hear “The Impact of the Volcker Rule on Job Creators“
•  Thursday: A webinar on How to Calculate Your ROI on Networking Events

Other News:

•  The dim future for stock prices
• Basel regulators ease leverage-ratio rule for banks
• Startups need mergers and acquisitions for growth
• 2014 will be the year of the “business remix”
• Private equity and Washington: A love story
• Manu Kumar’s 4 rules of M&A for startup founders

This week in history… Raytheon Corp. acquires Hughes electronics for $9.5 billion (1997)