Advisors What’s Driving the Valuation Gap in the Middle Market? January and February 2016 brought the lowest middle market M&A deal volume for that time period in 25 years. Many…
Advisors 3 Aspects of Cultural Due Diligence to Consider Legal and financial due diligence are necessities for a successful M&A transaction. Given the increasingly complex nature of most deals,…
Advisors 7 Things to Consider in IT Due Diligence IT due diligence is too often overlooked when it comes to lower middle market acquisitions. We wrote recently about the benefits…
Private Equity The Rise of Co-Investments, and Why LPs Want More Private equity is experiencing a shadow capital boom. Data over the past several years consistently shows co-investment and direct investment…
Private Equity PE Increasingly Eyes Distressed Oil and Gas Investments: Here’s Why The significant drop in oil and gas prices over the last two years has created many buying opportunities for private…
Advisors Two Sides of a Coin: Cybersecurity and M&A Cybersecurity is primed for a spike in M&A transactions. According to data from Ernst & Young, the value of cybersecurity…
Private Equity Benefits and Challenges for Family Offices Investing in PE A majority of single family offices expect to invest more in private equity in the future, citing “the potential to…
Private Equity Private Equity Expectations Ambivalent Heading Into Q2 2016 The first two months of 2016 brought a paltry 236 completed middle market transactions, according to data from Thompson Reuters…
Advisors The Rise of Reps and Warranties Insurance in the Lower Middle Market Representations and warranties insurance (RWI) — a tool used in an M&A deal to cover for breaches in a seller’s…
