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FOCUS Investment Banking Represents SisTech Manufacturing in its Sale to LFM Capital

Focus Investment Banking

The investment is the sixth platform company in LFM’s third fund. We believe SisTech’s excellent production model and strong operational track record are truly differentiated in a fragmented market. FOCUS initiated this transaction and advised SisTech throughout the process.

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Investment Banking in Dubai: The New York of the Middle East?

Mergers and Inquisitions

You’ll also see a fair number of deals in the financial sponsors group due to the many sovereign wealth funds in the region. For example, total deal activity held up better than in other places in 2008, but it fell substantially in 2009, following the rest of the world. 1,000 | Dubai: ~150 Hedge Funds: S.: are much less active.

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On-Cycle Private Equity Recruiting: Will PE Firms Start Recruiting 10-Year-Old Children Soon?

Mergers and Inquisitions

But that timeline crept up over time, slowing down only in “crisis periods,” such as in 2009 (financial crisis aftermath) and 2020 – 2021 (COVID). based candidates in New York aiming for PE roles at mega-funds and upper-middle-market funds. Something like ~80% of hedge funds simply recruit candidates as needed.

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Solganick & Co. Advises Pandera Systems in its Strategic Merger with 66degrees

Solganick & Co.

billion committed to its three funds. Formed in 2009 by experienced investment banking professionals, Solganick is a data-driven independent investment bank and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm that provides specialized industry-focused expertise in the software and tech-enabled services industry sectors.

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Pandemic-Related Deal Litigation Highlights Buyer Leverage in Transactions Requiring Debt Financing

Cooley M&A

In virtually all transactions that require debt financing to fund a portion of the purchase price (and where the private equity sponsor is not providing a 100% equity backstop), specific performance of buyer’s obligation to close is only available as a remedy if the debt has been funded or would be funded if the sponsor’s equity is funded.

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Covid-19 Impact on US Private Capital Raising Activity in 2020

InvestmentBank.com

Many institutional and private investors found new homes for their cash in distressed debt funds, which caused the total size of those funds to quadruple, to nearly $1T between March 15 and April 1 [6]. These distressed debt and special situation funds — often labeled “COVID-19 opportunity funds” — were the source of 29.9%

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Tire Dealer Survival Guide: How to Keep Your Deal Alive When Selling Your Business

Focus Investment Banking

Like Saturn, Circuit City grew nationwide steadily, then peaked, circled the drain and died around 2009, when it was liquidated. A private deal network that covers the lower middle market in the United States and Canada, Axial investigated 47 transactions across a variety of industries.