Middle Market Weekly Outlook

As oil prices continued to fall, most in the industry prepared for a steady stream of mergers and acquisitions. But “the much anticipated wave of consolidation due to rock-bottom” prices hasn’t happened, Forbes reports. They explore how a “debt hangover” is standing in the way of deals.

Insights

• Here’s what happened when private equity came to Alabama
• PE is extending the lives of their funds in Latin America
• California measure seeks PE fee transparency
• Craft beer brewers learn to live with PE
• O&G consolidation isn’t happening
• New treatment models in PE behavioral health deals
• Is supply chain financing the solution to unlocking the middle market economy?

Transactions

• Boathouse Capital invests in OrthoFi
• Callcredit Information buys Numero
• BroadOak invests in LabConnect
• Livingbridge invests in BoilerJuice
• Citra Health buys Sirona Health

This Week in History… the Supreme Court rules that the “carriage tax” is constitutional as an indirect tax passed by Congress. (1796)