Middle Market Weekly Outlook

“With the Great Recession behind us, it’s now time for the Great Remix,” writes the Huffington Post. There’s a reason mega-mergers have become so common. Merging with the right company can help lower costs and increase market share and cash flow.

Meanwhile, the Harvard Business Review provides some tips for productivity on the road.

Insights

• Goldman Sachs seems to be promoting more women to MD
• PE’s share of M&A is shrinking
• Why 1+1 sometimes equals 3
• This is the year of the megadeal
• Goldman predicts more buybacks and less capex in 2016
• Why most M&A deals don’t make sense
• How to be productive on the road
• Check with an IP lawyer before you buy or sell a company
• PE is becoming more open to co-investments
• Why PE is a force for good
• Litigation risks in PE

Transactions

• Keensight Capital invests in VisionBox
• Frontier Capital invests 30 million in HealthiestYou
• Inoca Capital recaps Levementum
• Geritrex acquires PurinePharma
• Northwest Equity Partners acquires Marco
• Alpha Imaging secures funding from multiple backers
• Alleghany acquires IPS

Forum Features

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This Week in History… It becomes evident that NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) will pass a House vote. Wall Street responds with glee — the Dow Jones increases 33.25 points in a day. The agreement is enacted on January 1, 1994. (1993)