Lower Middle Market Weekly Outlook

Transactions:

• Brynwood Partners to sell DeMet’s Candy Company
• Amicus Therapeutics completes $25 million debt financing
• Back to Nature Foods Company has acquired SnackWell’s cookie and snacks business
• Symmetry Medical amends credit agreement, eliminates mezz debt

Events:

•  Happy New Year!

Opinions:

• Three tips that will make you a better negotiator
• Why 2014 will be the year of the small business
• Even after Volcker, banks aren’t safe enough
• KKR: Private equity’s busiest buyer of 2013
• Increased merger activity will carry over to next year
• The biggest financial feuds of 2013

This week in history… John D. Rockefeller officially creates the Standard Oil Company, combining all the affiliate companies into one large trust (1882).