Axial

JULY 27, 2023

Axial is excited to release its Q2 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. These quarterly league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks active on the Axial platform in Q2. In Q2, 771 sell-side investment banks and M&A advisors brought a total of 2,647 deals to market.

Investment Banks 52

Investment Banks Investment Banking Mergers and Acquisitions Banks 52

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At one point in time, Jack Bogle, founder of, of Vanguard was chairman of their mutual funds. Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. We were originally very equity heavy back in the day, and we made a lot of investments on the fixed income side.

Hedge Funds 65

Hedge Funds Mutual Funds Funds Due Diligence 65

The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nobody in the world writes about markets, finance derivatives, hedge funds, you name it, the way Matt does. It was underwriting, you know, it was like doing investment banking, underwriting public offerings. Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing.

Mergers and Acquisitions 52

Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Hedge Funds Financing 52

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.

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

And so, in terms of where our teams are spending time, it’s in and around sort of public markets. RITHOLTZ: That’s very interesting because we typically think of private equity as looking at these mature non-public companies. The first job for Morgan Stanley was McCown De Leeuw. BARATTA: Yeah.

Private Equity Firms 65

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Assets Financing 65

The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

Eva Shang : So at the time that we launched, there were already public companies that were doing litigation finance. One of our LPs likes to say, he likes to say that he invests in managers where it’s so time consuming and difficult to do what they’ve done, that no one in their right mind would do it.

Legal 59

Legal Hedge Funds Finance Financing 59

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? It was between corporate law and investment banking.

Leveraged Buyouts 105

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105