Top 25 Lower Middle Market Investment Banks | Q1 2024
Axial is excited to release our Q1 2024 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. To assemble this list, we…
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Last week, major PE players gathered in Berlin for the annual SuperReturn Conference.  Topics of the conference included: why private equity will become more private again,  how the pipeline for deals is “huge,” and how — despite $1 trillion in dry powder — PE firms are shying away from risky deals.
In other news, Warren Buffett published his annual letter on Saturday. Embedded in the letter was a surprising denigration of investment bankers, during which he accuses them of being too focused on drumming up business for the sake of business.
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This week in history…Â Washington Mutual acquires Great Western Financial Corp. for $6.6 billion (1997).