by admin | Nov 17, 2021 | Corporate Dev., Private Equity
How many of your inbound deals end up languishing on email servers without ever making it into a CRM? 10%, 50%, 90%? Whatever the number, the reality is that virtually no private equity or corporate development firm is capturing 100% of its deal flow for totally...
by Nicholas Donato | May 10, 2021 | Corporate Dev.
Corporate development teams now realize they can’t get out of their relationship management systems what they actually need. That’s because corporate development software today does a marvellous job of managing relationships, or deal activity, but often as separate...
by Nicholas Donato | Jan 5, 2017 | Asset Management, Corporate Dev., Fund of Funds, Private Equity, Private Equity Real Estate
A new Deloitte survey found that three out of four M&A professionals expect deal activity to continue rebounding into 2017. But this optimism comes with a caveat for private equity firms: the pressure is on to strike good deals. That’s partly because corporate...
by Nicholas Donato | Oct 27, 2016 | Corporate Dev., Corporate VC, M&A
A new study from boutique investment bank Harris Williams should alarm corporate development groups. The survey of 500 middle-market executives discovered a 38 percent jump this year from last in the number of respondents who named private equity firms as their...
by Nicholas Donato | Sep 8, 2016 | Asset Management, Corporate Dev., Fund of Funds, M&A, Mezzanine, Private Equity, Private Equity Real Estate
From the outside looking in, Europe is a scary place – especially so for cross border M&A professionals who place a premium on political and economic certainty. Italy urgently needs a big, bold bank clean-up. Pessimists fear Brexit will fracture Europe’s financial...
by Nicholas Donato | Aug 16, 2016 | Asset Management, Corporate Dev., Fund of Funds, M&A, Private Equity, Private Equity Real Estate
Buyers want quality deal flow, but too often sellers don’t have a good sense of their investment criteria. In fact, these days “private equity firms all sound alike in what they are looking for,” said Allegiance Capital chairman David Mahmood, during a recent Navatar...
