Axial

MAY 4, 2023

Axial is excited to release its Q1 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. These league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks that were active on the Axial platform in Q1. In Q1, 740 sell-side investment banks and M&A advisors brought a total of 2,775 deals to market.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This can require lots of effort when it comes to performing due diligence, and there's always the risk that you could be wrong. Unlike a traditional bank that may pass on a start-up due to its risk profile, Hercules specializes in term loans and other debt structures for venture-backed companies.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

Stax specialises in commercial due diligence, value creation and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds and investment banks, across software/technology, healthcare, business services, industrial, consumer/retail and education.

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Axial

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When we surveyed our Investment Banking members on the topic of Exit-Preparation, only 9.6% We’re pleased to share more information on this topic from FOCUS Investment Banking, an Axial member since 2010 and an Axial sell-side partner since March of 2021. A sell-side QofE can also help expedite due diligence.

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At the time, our primary competition on larger deals wasn’t the major data providers but the free information offered by larger investment banks. Over the past decade, increased specialization among investment banks in specific verticals has extended this capability down-market in certain niches.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

AI has also made inroads in the dealmaking process itself, with a significant share already using or planning to use it in their internal documentation (74%) and for M&A due diligence (63%).

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Axial

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ashlyn Falahee, VP of Sales & Marketing, Sun Protection of Florida Peakstone Group is a Chicago-based, 40+ person investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory and capital raising. Ultimately, SunPro engaged Axial member Peakstone Group and began their transaction process.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But a smaller investment minimum doesn't mean that this type of bond has lower risks. Baby bonds are issued by the same types of companies that issue traditional bonds, including utility companies, investment banks, telecom companies and other types of corporate issuers.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When we surveyed Axial’s Investment Banking membership on the topic of exit preparation, we asked a wide range of questions with the hope of distilling the best tips and insights for exit-curious business owners. This is issue 4 of a 5-part series featuring the Investment Bank survey results.

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Axial

JUNE 15, 2023

ACT Capital Advisors Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners SF&P Advisors Newbury Franklin FOCUS Investment Banking Pinewell Capital Cornerstone Business Services, Inc. ” – Stephen Sleigh, Managing Partner of Investment Bank, Peakstone Group “Across the board, the labor market continues to frustrate business owners.

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The Private Equiteer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Courses are not strictly necessary but very helpful for candidates who have not gone through investment banking analyst programs. But with the increasing hiring of candidates from management consulting (and other non-banking) backgrounds and the recruiting cycle arms race, some self-study is warranted for aspiring private equiteers.

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Axial

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Asset Quality The Move Towards Highly Structured Deals Increased Activity From Family Offices & Independent Sponsors The Tightening of Credit Markets The tightening of credit markets has created significant challenges for borrowers, particularly as bank and non-bank lenders have increased rates and shortened term lengths for loans.

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Axial

DECEMBER 22, 2023

3 Investment Banking League Tables These league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks that were active on the Axial platform in the first three quarters of 2023. Enjoy these featured podcast episodes from 2023.

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Axial

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With this in mind, lets take a detailed look at the preparations to consider while planning your exit: Define Your Motivations for Selling and Set Your Goals One respondent to our Investment Banking survey, Chris Perfect from Concept and Perspective , views motivations and goal-setting as foundational to the exit planning phase.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

I mean, I, I liked, I, I like learned a lot from that job and it’s like really helped me do what I do today because it really touched on a lot of elements of the bank. It was underwriting, you know, it was like doing investment banking, underwriting public offerings. I recall you wrote about that.

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The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

Well, you have to have a certain track record, be around for certain length of period, be able to check all of their due diligence boxes, and that takes time and money. ” “Well, we — you know, we just missed our bank projections a second time,” and I’m going on and on. WEAVER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

If you see the IUL grifters on TikTok claiming an IUL policy is better than a 401k, or that is has upside potential with downside protection, a “can’t lost money asset”, or “privatized banking” you’ll know why the outrage is well deserved. The fair market value of the cap is what the carrier paid the investment bank to buy the 10% cap.

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Axial

JANUARY 30, 2024

Axial is excited to release our 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. To assemble this list, we reviewed the 2023 deal-making activities of 807 investment banks and advisory firms that met the qualifications to be considered for league tables.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And what I think distinguishes us at Wellington is that we’re able to utilize our public market investors in the due diligence process in helping us assess. And we have co-investors that we work with that are clients of ours that we want to be able to offer them the opportunity to invest also.

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Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Axial is excited to release its Q3 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. These quarterly league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks active on the Axial platform in Q3. In Q3, 571 sell-side investment banks and M&A advisors brought a total of 2,360 deals to market.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah. They’re trading. They’re advising clients.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Under the SIA, Costa will be subject to customary exclusivity obligations, including no shop, no talk and no due diligence obligations (the latter two subject to a customary fiduciary exception), notification obligations and a matching right. and is a leading middle market banking provider in the U.S. A break fee of $14.9

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based Previously, Michael spent over 25 years in investment banking, working across asset classes, in various roles at Nomura Securities, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley.

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Trivest Partners

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Seneca Partners was formed in 1999 as a merchant bank, doing both investment banking and investing into privately held companies. In 2003, we formed Seneca Health Partners, a small, committed healthcare fund focused on growth stage investing. Finally, can you regale us with an interesting or funny M&A story?

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I mean, how is the CFP Board even going through a process of due diligence, again, innocent till proving guilty in the sense when they have all kinds of disclosures, but at the same time, they’re publicly reprimanding 40 people, 80 people, whatever the number is, in a given year, out of the tens of thousands.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I was actually running the Investment Banking Club at BYU, and you know, thought I was interested in that, interested in going to Wall Street. Tell us a little bit about the corporate culture which is decidedly different than the typical Wall Street bank. I just signed a whole bunch of bank docs through DocuSign on my laptop.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And we said, let’s just take a little detour here and make sure we understand the credit risk of these things before we sort of travel, start making markets and banking and, and, and really making these a core part of our business. There were financial experiments where the borrower hadn’t been through due diligence.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To lead the bank’s efforts in investing in sovereign debt restructurings and to bring our clients along was a great experience. KOENIGSBERGER: — you know, when I got to Merrill in 1995, and you looked at the trade blotter of who you were trading with, it was basically banks trading with each other.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And if you’re a lazy value investor buying high yields, you’re going to be buying a lot of banks right now. DAMODARAN: A lot of regional banks right now have dividend yields of 6, 7, 8 percent. DAMODARAN: The write-offs are going to be the banks writing it off. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Not the debt. RITHOLTZ: Wait.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The most senior of those former officials, Cyril Cabanes, who was in charge of the Caisse’s infrastructure investments in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions at the time of the alleged offences, has also been charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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