Last week, Axial convened a virtual roundtable of members to review the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on lower middle market business owners, M&A activity, and dealmaking. We assembled specialist and generalist investment bankers, corporate buyers and private equity investors (eight in total) to cut ...

Anticipating the future is a major part of any private equity professional’s job responsibilities. How will a potential portfolio company perform given shifting market and industry conditions? How will customers react to changes in product offerings? When is the right time to sell?  In today’s ...

While a lot of fuss has been made lately about a coming bear market, dealmakers don’t seem so sure. According to Deloitte’s 2020 M&A Trends survey, only four percent of respondents anticipate a decline in deal numbers in 2020, and even fewer (two percent) think deal size will decrease. (Deloitte’s ...