Buyers Rolling up hardware stores: CMG completes 9 acquisitions in 2022 The lower middle market demonstrated its resilience in 2022, serving as the source for fresh consolidation opportunities that a growing…
Buyers Search Funds Making Strides Across Lower Middle Market With the latest edition of Axial’s Pursuits Report, we explored how the overall profile of buyers in Q3 2022 broke…
Buyers Holding Companies Emerging as Driver of LMM Consolidation The below article was originally published in August 2022 in conjunction with a conference dedicated to lower middle market holding…
Business Owners Anatomy of an Earnout An earnout represents just one of many contractual provisions structuring the sale of a business. That sounds pedestrian enough at…
Advisors Analysis Reveals Business Broker Impact on LMM M&A Business brokers have become more active within the private markets, almost doubling in number over the past decade. Their role…
Buyers Holding Companies Emerging as Driver of LMM Consolidation Macroeconomic headwinds have hit M&A activity hard this year. Geopolitical tensions, inflation, and pandemic-related supply chain challenges continue to stymie…
LMM Industrials & Manufacturing Sector Adapting Through Disruption The debate preceding the approval of a $1 trillion infrastructure package in 2021 reinvigorated a wider conversation about private investment…
LMM Remains Resilient in the Face of Recession Earlier this year, public indices entered bear market territory for the first time since panic over the COVID-19 pandemic derailed…
ESG in the Spotlight as LMM Initiatives Gain Traction If it seems like the discussion of environmental, social, and governance is everywhere these days, you’re not wrong: it is.…