BD Best Practices While You’re Heads Down on a Deal For boutique investors, keeping up with business development efforts while moving a deal down the funnel may feel close to…
4 Deals That Failed and Why After tireless months of courtship, meetings, negotiations, due diligence, and approvals, why are so many deals still at risk of…
Middle Market Weekly Outlook As the first month of 2016 drew to a close, the market had its eye on early indications of how…
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 Direct Investment Risks — and How to Mitigate Them Direct investing can be risky. If it weren’t, every investor would simply allocate 100% of their capital to this area…
When Deal Negotiation Fails: 4 Mega-Deals That Weren’t No one likes to sink time, energy, and money into deals that aren’t going to pan out. For every successful…
Middle Market Weekly Outlook A lot has been written about M&A’s monster year in 2015. But MarketWatch reminds us to look at the underlying…
Why You Need an IT Professional on Your M&A Deal Team Traditional M&A deal teams run the risk of missing substantive issues that could impact deal structure, terms, and integration success.…
The New Proprietary Deal Flow Proprietary deal flow: the gem investors crave. Problem is, proprietary deal flow seems harder to come by these days. With…
