Middle Market Weekly Outlook

Last week was a terrible start for the stock market (the Dow dropped 167.65 points), but it remains to be seen how volatility will affect M&A, in particular for the mid-market. Meanwhile, some wonder whether job growth will continue into 2016. Read more in this week’s outlook.

Insights

• Robust hiring in December points to strong economic fundamentals in U.S.
• Industry professionals predict PE investing will increase
• A private equity conflict grows on Wall Street
• PE missed out on the bulk of M&A last year
• 2015 was a record year for M&A
• M&A trends in 2016: more social dealmaking, fewer leaked deals

Transactions

• Rizk Ventures acquires WRx
• Consonance Capital Partners recaps Bako
• Carlyle completes acquisition of 1insurer
• MTS Health invests in HCCA
• Waud sells The Center for Vein Restoration
• Sun Capital buys Finlay Horticulture
• National HME buys Therapy Support

This Week in History…
The first major oil discovery in the U.S. occurs in Beaumont, Texas — ushering in the Texas Oil Boom and marking the beginning of the American oil industry. (1901)