Spotlight on the Consumer Following the announcement of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger, one telling footnote deserves more attention: private equity was eyeing Whole Foods but, due to a rapidly evolving industry, didn’t really have a chance against Amazon. An interesting scoop from Techcrunch reported that, after hearing PE firms were trying to start exploratory conversations,…
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By all accounts it was worth waiting for. The 10th Procrastination Research Conference, held last month in Chicago, featured sixty professionals – mostly psychologists and behavioral economists – from around the world. Besides reviewing the latest findings in this unusual field, attendees discussed why so many people – one in five of us – qualify…
This week we continue our conversation with Marc Daniel, managing director, mergers and acquisitions, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. STRH is recognized as a top provider of M&A services for deals under $500 million and has executed hundreds of transactions for private and public companies, as well as financial sponsor firms, across a wide variety of industries…
Since mid-May both one-month and three-month Libor rates have been consistently above the 1% benchmark floor for many leverage loans.
Deal Concentration by Location and Industry Recent Preqin data saw that deals completed in H1 2017 were both concentrated by location as well as primary industry focus. Preqin found that most private debt deal activity was concentrated in North America and most completed deals occurred in the industrials sector…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member?
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South Korea widens as rhetoric ramps up Donald Trump’s promise to bring “fire and fury” to North Korea if it continues to threaten the United States has certainly caused consternation across the world. But has Trump’s rhetoric affected the credit markets? In the space of a couple of days it has had an impact, though…