Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Selling an individual or family-owned private company used to be like hitting a golf ball. If investment bankers were beginning a sale assignment in 2010, they would ask the business owners to share information on past exchanges with potential buyers. Today it’s more like swinging at a 98-mph, split-finger fastball. Let’s talk.

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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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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

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. How did those experiences lead to a career in private equity? There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

It was underwriting, you know, it was like doing investment banking, underwriting public offerings. It was dealing with like the sort of guts of the bank and like new product development and capital and, and balance sheet. 00:33:08 Who, who is advising him to waive due diligence? I recall you wrote about that.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Really interesting. In terms of being that specific.

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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. And that’s enough time to get to know a space, and to get to know a sector, and to get to know a company and decide if you want to make an investment or not. LAYTON: Yeah.

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