Bulge-bracket is a term used in corporate finance to describe the largest and often most prestigious investment banks. Although there is no strict metric for this classification, bulge-bracket investment banks typically represent clients with transaction values in excess of $50 million. [NOTE: www.PrivateEquityInfo.com segregates investment banking firms by the enterprise value of the firms’ typical [...]
For each fund under management, private equity firms cycle through a multi-staged process of:
Fund raising from limited partners
Portfolio acquisition search
Investment
Growth
Divestment
Dispersal of funds back to limited partners
Fund Raising
Most private equity firms raise capital for a fund through investments made by limited partners - typically pensions, endowments, institutional funds, and high [...]
Investment bankers represent either the seller or the buyer in a given transaction. However, the vast majority of middle market investment bankers and business intermediaries represent the sell-side.
Why are Most Middle Market M&A Firms on the Sell-Side?
The majority of the compensation that an investment banker receives is tied to a success fee, payable upon the [...]
“Mergers and acquisitions serve to combine two previously separate companies. A merger implies some equality in size or stature as wells as mutual consent between the combining firms, while an acquisition implies one dominant company purchasing a company of lesser size or stature and sometimes even against the wishes of the target (in the case [...]
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can appear dauntingly complex with the various transaction structures and numerous participants involved in the process. Adding to the confusion, industry players are often coined by multiple, synonymous names. It’s no wonder many outside Wall Street view the M&A industry as a Byzantine Empire of financial wizardry…” Read More
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Private Equity Info expands data to include professional biographies for the M&A Advisory Firm data module.
This data set includes the name, title, email address and professional bio of senior-level executives. We also implemented a new search engine on this data module to allow subscribers to keyword search the professional bios.