Week in Review: Microsoft, Fee Hogs, and Leveraged Loans The short post-Labor Day week started with a boom with Microsoft announcing its acquisition of Nokia’s devices unit for $7.2…
Will 2013 See Another Post-Labor Day Boom? With Labor Day behind us, the deal community is preparing for transition out of the summer slowdown. In both 2011…
Quiz: PE-Backed or Not? PE is often hidden in plain sight. At the start of The New Tycoons, Jason Kelley remarked that, while walking…
How to Handle an Unsolicitied Acquisition Offer If you run a profitable, growing business of any significant size you will eventually receive an unsolicited offer to buy…
3D Printing & The Future of Manufacturing Note: The following are a series of excerpts from a guest post by Axial’s Cody Boyte that appeared in this…
Week in Review: Potbelly, PE Hospitals, and Goodbye to Summer Happy Friday, all. In honor of the long holiday weekend, here is an early edition of the Week in Review.…
5 Fun Excel Models for Fridays With August coming to a close and the summer slowdown reaching its final nadir, it’s hard to focus on deal…
Ambiguous NDAs: The Secret Deal Killer Of the hundreds of deals that pass a private equity professional’s desk in a given year, only a handful will…
Why Small Businesses Aren’t Getting Loans Lending isn’t what it used to be. Despite record-low interest rates and gradual improvement of the economy, the lending environment…
