When the private equity industry first got started, reporters (and the public at large) paid little attention. Our industry began at a small scale and operated largely under the radar. The private businesses bought and sold rarely made the types of headlines that public companies did. Fast forward to 2018, ...

“The legal cannabis industry is among the fastest-growing markets in the United States,” says Harrison Phillips, vice president at Viridian Capital Advisors, a New York-based advisory firm specializing in the industry. The market was worth $8 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $10.8 billion in 2018 ...

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 ...