Today, independent sponsors are a proven asset class in the middle market. Ten or twenty years ago, however, it was a different story. “We’ve seen a big change in terms of what 2009 looked like for an independent sponsor and what 2018 looks like for an independent sponsor,” says Dan Lipson, Partner at ...

In today’s competitive M&A environment, private equity firms and strategic acquirers are hungry for deals. At the same time, they are offloading saleable assets while valuations continue to soar. To capture as much market share as possible, investment banks have been looking for ways to expand their reach. ...

No generation has had the impact on small business creation that the baby boomers have had over the past 50 years. And now, many of these baby boomers are looking to retire. During 2017, 36 percent of all small business owners—those with $100,000 to $10 million in sales—said they plan to transition the ...