US MM Transaction Sizes Indicate Concentration in the Core In the first half of 2016, the median size of buyouts in the US middle market declined slightly to $128.3 million, a slide of just over $11 million. Given PitchBook’s methodology of classifying the core middle market as transactions sized between $100 million and $500 million,…
Flex activity continued to favor issuers in July Market sentiment in July was more of the same in the leveraged institutional market. Although deal flow thinned out from a swell of volume in June, negotiations continued to favor issuers. Thomson Reuters LPC’s Flex Factor scored a -0.04 for July,… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member?
This week we chat with Paul Peterson, a managing director at Wind Point Partners. Wind Point Partners is a private equity investment firm that with a strategic focus on facilitating leadership transitions by partnering with top caliber executives to acquire middle market businesses with a clear path to value creation. Since its founding in 1984,…
First-Time Private Debt Fundraising As the closed-end private debt industry grows in size and prominence, new fund managers continue to launch new vehicles in order to take advantage of increasing investor appetite and attractive investment opportunities. However, with the private debt fundraising… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...
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Back in July 2010, not long after the first Greek bailout, results of stress tests conducted by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (the predecessor of the EBA) were released on the EU’s banks. They didn’t make for happy reading. Seven institutions failed, and they were required to raise additional capital to reach the 6%…
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The setting was Arlington Park, a storied horse racing venue about a forty-five minute Uber ride northwest of Chicago. We had just lost $50 on a “sure thing” in the 5th race, though we should have been suspicious with a horse named Diminishing Return. The summer gathering there was hosted by one of the leaders…