Buyers Here’s to the New Year: 4 Trends for 2019 What will be on dealmakers’ mind in 2019? Overall, we expect the trends that started during the bull market to…
Business Owners As Search Fund Popularity Rises, Alternative Models Emerge Today, the number of active search funds is at an all-time high, according to Stanford’s 2018 Search Fund Study. A…
Private Equity Lower Middle Market Too Hot to Touch via GIPHY The M&A market as a whole remains white hot and the lower middle market is no exception. Sellers…
Advisors Is Software Going to Eat Junior Investment Bankers Next? Marc Andreessen, famous entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, famously asserted in 2011 that “software is eating the world.”  More recently, there…
Private Equity 4 Predictions for Cannabis Investing in 2018 “The legal cannabis industry is among the fastest-growing markets in the United States,” says Harrison Phillips, vice president at Viridian…
Private Equity The New Class of Independent Sponsors Today, independent sponsors are a proven asset class in the middle market. Ten or twenty years ago, however, it was…
Buyers Strategic Acquirers Show Strong Interest in Beauty Sector The beauty industry isn’t what it used to be. “Millennials aren’t buying things the way that their parents did —…
Private Equity PE Industry Firing on All Cylinders in 2018 It’s no secret that 2017 was a strong year for private equity. The industry saw growth with global buyout value…
Business Owners Red Flags for a Bear Market to Come — How Sellers Should Respond Is 2018 the new 2007? Across the industry, private equity investors are reporting strong M&A activity in the middle market.…
