Marc Andreessen, famous entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, famously asserted in 2011 that “software is eating the world.”  More recently, there is a growing chorus of pundits and practitioners talking about the impact of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) across the financial services ...

“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 ...