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Middle Market M&A Activity Update
Today, a quick update on Middle Market (Enterprise Value less than $500M) M&A Activity… First, the Private Equity Headlines: PE is “leaner” these days, and Middle Market deal volume is lower...
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You Can Lead A Horse To Water…
Here’s something you don’t read every day in an S-1… “Institutional Venture Partners IV, L.P. is compelling us to register the shares of Class A common stock offered hereby by exercising demand...
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2013 Carve Out Survey
I just had a quick look at Deloitte’s annual divestiture survey. The survey polled 150 executives at mostly larger and public companies about their plans to either slim down or sell operations (a...
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When 3,678 Isn’t 5,000…
Did you know that now there are only about half as many publicly traded companies as there were in 2000? I didn’t. The number of publicly traded companies always ebbs and flows, but the current number...
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Overhang
Attention corporate development executives: the overhang of unsold private equity portfolio companies has never been higher. It’s true — private equity firms are sitting on the largest collection of...
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Where’s The Incentive?
I’m always fascinated by methods employers use to incentivize their employees… Did you hear that Goldman Sachs is considering retreating from Europe, given the Eurozone’s stance on enforcing bonus...
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More On Overhang…
A couple weeks ago, I posted that the overhang of unsold private equity portfolio companies has never been higher in the history of the asset class. Today, I want to share more about the massive...
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Irrational Ex-Uber-ance
In case you missed it, there has recently been some uber-interesting valuation discourse around the blogosphere regarding Uber, the company whose smart phone app connects drivers with those wanting...
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