Middle Market Weekly Outlook

It’s October, but our minds are still on summer deal activity. Pitchbook reports that $262.7 billion was invested into 1,353 global PE deals in Q3 this year, compared to $298 billion for 1,768 deals in Q3 2014.

Meanwhile, sluggish hiring rates raise new doubts that the Fed will raise interest rates. Reuters reports the U.S. saw “the smallest two-month gain in employment in over a year.”

Insights

• Job growth stumbles
• PE deal activity slowed in Q3 2015
• The richest PE titans in America
• PE is hungry for the restaurant sector
• How has market unrest affected M&A?
• A countess shares tips to safeguard family money
• PE is snatching up troubled mortgages
• Strategics perk up over coffee-related M&A
• In defense of operating partners

Transactions

• CCMP to buy control of Shoes For Crews
• Sterling exits Liqui-Box
• J.C. Flowers & Co. sells Ascensus Inc.
• Platinum Equity closes World Flight Services buy
• Thoma Bravo closes MedeAnalytics buy
• Blue Sky invests in ORIGO Education
• Epic Health buys Unifour Nursing
• Abraaj Group invests in Tiba Group
• AMO Pharma raises $25 mln
• Levine Leichtman closes Caring Brands buy
• Advanced Dermatology acquires the assets of Dermatology of North Colorado

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