21 Notable Member Deals from 2021 2021 M&A markets did not disappoint. Global and North American M&A volumes shattered prior records. A seller backlog from 2020,…
Lower Middle Market Pursuits: Quantifying Buyer Intent In The LMM It’s not every day new metrics are introduced that can help M&A professionals better understand the markets within which they…
A Window Into The Private World Of M&A Fees What’s a fair price for advice on acquisitions of small and medium-sized companies (SMBs)? It’s hard to get a data-driven…
These Two Tech Entrepreneurs Turned SMB Acquirers Are Disrupting the Private Equity Model with Permanent Capital From growth-obsessed startupland to the boring backwaters of SMB M&A, meet Sieva Kozinsky and Xavier Helgesen, co-CEOs of Enduring Ventures.…
The Top 15 Axial Member Deals of 2020 We will all remember 2020. Against the backdrop of a global public health crisis, an ensuing devastating economic crisis, and…
Covid-19’s Silver Lining for American Capital Markets Covid-19 may someday go away, but the accelerated digitization it has thrust upon American private and public capital markets is…
Announcing the First 50 Recipients of the Covid-19 Closed Deal Badge The entire world has been turned upside down by Covid-19. It has not spared the lower middle market’s entrepreneurs and…
The Top 10 Axial Member Deals of 2019 For the third year in a row, we are publishing the Top 10 annual Axial member-to-member transactions (see 2018 and…
Advisors Automating the M&A Banker? McKinsey’s Research (and Ours) Indicate “No Chance” Is technology in the early innings of fully automating the M&A banker? Earlier this year, CB Insights put out a…