Top 5 Private Business & Investment Articles to Start the Week: A Creative Way to Sell Your Business

Top 5 Private Business & Investment Articles of the Week is a weekly series on the Axial blog which highlights the best articles from around the web on buying, selling, and building successful private businesses.  We welcome articles for consideration: [email protected].

1. Evercore’s Altman: M&A Recovering, ‘Not Skyrocketing’

Author: Shira Ovide

Roger Altman, Chairman of boutique investment bank Evercore, says that although the M&A market is steadily recovering, it still has “quite a ways to go”; this despite a record breaking Q3 for his firm’s investment banking division.

2. Private Equity Swoops on Nursing Homes

Author: Stephanie Kirchgaessner

The rapidly aging U.S. population has financial buyers swooning over – and snatching up – nursing homes.

3. A Creative Way to Sell Your Business

Author: Barbara Taylor

When the owners of Select Machine, Inc. of Brimfield, Ohio decided to sell their company, they were met with the unpleasant realization that this would likely mean the loss of their current employees’ future jobs.

So they decided to sell their company directly to their employees by establishing a worker-owned cooperative.

4. Three Reasons Why Energy M&A is Surging

Author: Dan Primack

2010 has already seen $196 billion of M&A in the U.S. power and energy sector, more than YTD 2008 and 2009 combined.

5. Cash Flow Loans Still Not Abundant

Author: Ronald Kahn

Lincoln International’s Ronald Kahn writes for PEHub on the increasingly stringent hurdles companies have to clear in order to obtain senior debt based on cash flow.