Monday Morning Outlook

Transactions:

• The Riverside Company acquires Paradigm
• PE-backed Crown Group acquires Electra-Finish
• Wellspring Capital Management acquires Swift Worldwide Resources
• Antelope Oil Tool acquires WearSox
• Kennametal completes acquisition of Tungsten Materials
• ATK completes acquisition of Bushnell Group Holdings
• SunPower announces acquisition of Greenbotics

Events:

• Monday: The 2013 PIPEs Conference
• Tuesday Webinar: How to Value Your Business in 20 Minutes

Other News:

• Want a good corporate merger? Have an investment banker on your board
• Private equity needs to act ‘maturely’
• Why UBS and Credit Suisse may need to pull out of investment banking
• Investec has released its Private Equity Insights 2013 report
• Looking at Twitter’s IPO? Beware these 5 IPO illusions

This week in history… Charles Henry Dow, of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was born (1851).