Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. And Navigant Consulting, a well-known publicly traded company, finished going private in 2019, after first selling its Disputes, Forensics and Legal Technology practice to Ankura in 2018, and then selling its remaining divisions to Guidehouse.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 18, 2020

They have enormous amounts of dry powder that they must deploy and continue to have access to very inexpensive debt. We thought that the best way to highlight the current trends in the marketplace would be to show the data as initially reported by S&P for each quarter.

M&A 52

M&A Insurance S&P Broker 52

Sica Fletcher

MARCH 8, 2024

EBITDA Multiples for Insurance Agencies, 2018-2024 (Projected) M&A Deal Volume for Insurance Agencies, 2018-2024 (Projected) *S&P Global Data taken from ,,, “Insurance Brokers and Servicers Sector View 2024” The most important news this data offers is that insurance M&A is not actually in the tailspin that many “experts” claim it to be.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 31, 2024

They might have separate teams for specific strategies or markets, but everything is run under a single Profit & Loss statement (P&L). There are very few real “requirements” besides the single PM / single P&L one above and the standard Limited Partner / General Partner structure that all hedge funds use.

Funds 59

Funds Management S&P Recruitment 59

Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023’s much-discussed downturn in mergers & acquisitions – with global M&A volume and value down 6% and 17%, respectively, from 2022 – was largely driven by the slowdown in the tech sector, with global tech M&A volumes down 51% year over year, while other sectors saw marked increases. [1] in 2022 to 5.9x

M&A 59

M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Equities 59

Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

S&P reported that the number of insurance brokerage transactions closed in 2020 slightly exceeded those in 2019. Sica | Fletcher closed 125 transactions in 2020 (our best year ever, and again, , leading the league tables ) in comparison with 92 in 2019 and 79 in 2018. trillion over the next decade.

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