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TDE Middle Market: Covid Offers Opportunities for Cross-Border M&A

By Jonathan Braude

Published: July 31st, 2020

Lockdowns are making due diligence and building relationships harder, but the coronavirus crisis is also offering opportunities for both strategic and private equity investors, panelists said at The Deal Economy: Middle Market Week.

Restructuring

TDE Middle Market: Advisers Expect Spike in Restructurings

By Kirk O'Neil

Published: July 30th, 2020

Restructuring advisers said during The Deal Economy: Middle Market Week that many companies may not recover until 2022.

Activism

TDE Middle Market: Snow Park Gives Front Yard Ultimatum

By Ronald Orol

Published: July 30th, 2020

Jeffrey Pierce discusses why the rental property REIT should sell itself or face a proxy contest, and more, during The Deal Economy: Middle Market Week.

Activism

TDE Middle Market: Activists Eye Pay During Covid

By Greg Morcroft

Published: July 30th, 2020

Companies that were unprepared for the coronavirus due to too-cozy relationships between board and management could become the next targets, panelists said during an activist webcast, part of The Deal Economy: Middle Market Week.

Podcasts

Behind the Buyouts: VMG Partners Embraces Diversity

By Steve Gelsi

Published: July 29th, 2020

On the latest episode of the Behind the Buyouts podcast, Cassie Nielsen and Wayne Wu of VMG Partners say PE firms need to be diverse to reach growing demographics in the U.S.

Roundtable: Assessing Strategic Dealmaking in a Volatile Covid-19 Market

Published: July 27th, 2020

In partnership with Cooley, The Deal sits down with leading corporate dealmakers and deal advisers to talk about assessing deals in this volatile market.

M&A

Drinks With The Deal: Simpson's Alan Klein

By David Marcus

Published: July 23rd, 2020

Simpson's Alan Klein discusses his stint in London in the late 1990s, his work for Microsoft and Tyco and his passion for films and books on the latest episode of the Drink With The Deal podcast.

M&A

Best of the Middle Market, Private Equity Dealmaker of the Year: Jeffrey Poss, Willkie

By Deal Staff

Published: July 23rd, 2020

The co-chairman of the firm’s private equity group and winner of The Deal’s middle-market PE adviser of the year has guided some of the firm’s most active acquirers on countless deals.

M&A

Blackstone-Backed HealthEdge Adds Burgess

By Armie Margaret Lee

Published: July 23rd, 2020

HealthEdge’s acquisition of the payment integrity software company comes after HealthEdge became a Blackstone portfolio company in April.

Insights & Analysis

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TDE Middle Market: Covid Offers Opportunities for Cross-Border M&A

TDE Middle Market: Advisers Expect Spike in Restructurings

TDE Middle Market: Snow Park Gives Front Yard Ultimatum

TDE Middle Market: Activists Eye Pay During Covid

Behind the Buyouts: VMG Partners Embraces Diversity

Roundtable: Assessing Strategic Dealmaking in a Volatile Covid-19 Market

Drinks With The Deal: Simpson's Alan Klein

Best of the Middle Market, Private Equity Dealmaker of the Year: Jeffrey Poss, Willkie

Blackstone-Backed HealthEdge Adds Burgess

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