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The New Role of Private Equity Firms

The M&A Lawyer

He and the Merit Harbor team work with middle-market business owners looking to grow, acquire or sell companies in the $10mm to $100mm valuation range. With recent high company valuations and other general macro-economic factors, investors need to get far more involved with a company in order to expect any type of fast growth.

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

InvestmentBank.com

When the initial wave of uncertainty around COVID-19 set in during March 2020, the debt market flipped on its head, paving a path to the worst debt-raising year since 2015 [6]. Meanwhile, fundraisers suffered a significant reduction in new investments — on pace for the lowest annualized amount since 2015.

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Sports Private Equity: Bright Spot in a Troubled PE Landscape or an Emerging Bubble?

Mergers and Inquisitions

This happened for a few reasons: 1) Soaring Valuations – Many sources say that sports team valuations “outperformed” the S&P 500 over the past 20 years, which is a polite way of saying that many teams are now valued at extremely high multiples. only a handful a decade ago).

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Cooley’s 2023 Tech M&A Year in Review: An AI-Generated Glass Half Full

Cooley M&A

Private equity slowed but not stopped by financing environment Despite record amounts of dry powder accumulating for sponsors, high financing costs, persistent valuation gaps and a closed tech IPO market led to a significant decrease in private equity M&A activity in 2023. 6] Will strategic tech buyers return to the fray in 2024?

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Consumer Retail Private Equity: Barbarians at the Gate, or Tech Bros on a Shopping Spree?

Mergers and Inquisitions

It reached a market cap of $100 billion in 2015 before declining to ~$8 billion in 2024. Other than that, the articles about middle-market private equity , private equity mega-funds , and growth equity are the most relevant ones because they describe the careers and advancement processes.