Axial

JANUARY 23, 2025

Axial is excited to release our 2024 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. To assemble this list, we reviewed the deal-making activities of 400+ investment banks and advisory firms that met the qualifications to be considered for league tables last year.

Investment Banks 59

Investment Banks Investment Banking Banks Mergers and Acquisitions 59

Axial

DECEMBER 18, 2024

M&A Industry Report: Business Services Q3 2024 | www.focusbankers.com FOCUS Investment Banking is a trusted name in M&A advisory services with a nationwide footprint and a global reach. An Axial member since 2010, FOCUS works across a broad range of industries and has marketed more than 225 deals on the Axial platform.

Business Services 52

Business Services Investment Banking Investment Banks Banks 52

The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Matt Levine : 00:05:09 There’s some of that, but like, you have to like, like yeah, you’re like writing merger agreements and then the other side is marking up the merger agreement and like you’re arguing over commas and stuff. What was your experience like? And I love that. I thought that was really fun.

Mergers and Acquisitions 52

Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Hedge Funds Financing 52

The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

Peter is the guy I look to when I wanna learn things about how to build a firm, how to grow organically, how to think about acquisitions, how to structure your company, really to become an enterprise as opposed to merely being a business. You did no acquisitions. This is the right investment approach. And, and now it’s up.

Mergers and Acquisitions 65

Mergers and Acquisitions Consultants Consulting Taxes 65

The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

With us, the law firm is basically a customer of MarketCounsel for a lot of our startup work. For most of the clients that come to us for startup work, right? And so, you can decide that you want to sever your employment and then begin the startup work, but that’s not tenable — RITHOLTZ: Right. HAMBURGER: Yes.

Legal 65

Legal Law Firms Consultants Consulting 65

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. And so I joined Goldman in there, it was a 12-person merger department. So I joined Goldman and their merger department, but said, I’d like to be your LBO guy. You know, he’s a great entrepreneur, and it was a half a million-dollar investment from the firm.

Leveraged Buyouts 105

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105

The Big Picture

MARCH 4, 2025

Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. Really fascinating because she sees the world from a very unique perch, has incredible access to every aspect of both commercial and investing banking that a small startup or medium-sized company, and by medium I mean up to $2 billion in revenue might need.

Banks 52

Banks Debt Startups Capital 52