Sentences with phrase «lower middle market»

Gladstone Capital partners with management teams, entrepreneurs and private equity sponsors to provide financing solutions for lower middle market companies nationwide.

LDiscovery's merger with AlphaLit follows its 2011 recapitalization with WestView Capital Partners, a lower middle market growth equity firm with deep experience in tech - enabled business service and software companies.

American Lawyer: Akerman Makes a Play for More Middle - Market Private Equity Work ABL Advisor: Report: 2018 on Track for Strong PE Activity, Robust Middle Market M&A Financier Worldwide: 2018 a Strong Year for PE — Report Law360: Lower Middle Market Gets More Attractive After Tax Reform Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine: Middle Market Private Equity Funds Set Many Records in 2017 Private Equity Wire: Report: 2018 on Track for Strong PE Activity, Robust Middle Market M&A PitchBook: Looking Ahead at PE's Future

Capstar Partners is an Austin, Texas - based private investment firm investing in lower middle market operating companies to accelerate growth.

The company holds about 36 % equity in their lower middle market companies.

Main Street Capital (MAIN): Main Street Capital is a principal investment firm that provides long - term debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies.

Additionally, while both funds have similar investment objectives, Griffin Credit has a broad credit focused investment mandate, of which the BDC's lower middle market directly originated loans are just one sleeve.

About Brynwood Partners: Brynwood Partners, founded in 1984 and based in Greenwich, CT, is an operationally - focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American - based lower middle market companies in the consumer sector.

About Brynwood Partners: Founded in 1984 and based in Greenwich, CT, Brynwood Partners is an operationally - focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American - based lower middle market companies in the consumer sector.

Today, Ampersand is focused exclusively on growth equity investments in lower middle market healthcare companies.

Prior to his time at CIBC, Tyler was an Analyst at Summer Street Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market companies, based in Buffalo, New York.

James joined Triangle Capital (NYSE: TCAP)-- a publicly traded business development company focused on a variety of customized financing solutions including first lien, unitranche, and subordinated debt as well as equity for lower middle market companies — in 2010.

We believe this diverse experience provides us with an in - depth understanding of the strategic, financial and operational challenges and opportunities of the lower middle market companies in which we invest.»

Not exact matches

• Stoic Holdings, a Denver - based lower - middle market private equity firm, acquired Arctic Industries, a Miami - based walk - in cooler manufacturer.

HCPI will invest in lower - middle market manufacturing companies ranging in size from $ 10 to $ 100 million in enterprise value focused on consumer and industrial markets.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

The biggest demand for commercial loans, as far as U.S. Bank is concerned, is primarily for middle market firms looking for loans of up to $ 1 million or more, and on the lower end for $ 250,000 or less, says John Elmore, vice chairman of consumer banking for U.S. Bank.

TerraBrands will focus on investing or acquiring established lower middle - market companies in food, pet and nutrition segments.

Some forecasts predict that growth of new solar installations globally will decline to the single digits, due to market saturation in the U.S. and China, but will surge ahead again by 2019 as more markets (such as the middle and lower class) open up as technology becomes more affordable.

As a result, Rascoff said, home prices shoot up, leaving minimal inventory at the middle and low end of the housing market — and causing many millennials end up renting into their 30s.

«The market is currently saturated in the middle, and the low - cost, high - volume model is one way to crack into the competition.»

Market volatility is low, U.S. census data shows income gains have reached the middle class, and workers are clawing back a larger share of national income.

Carnelian focuses on investing in the lower - to - middle market oil and gas sector.

WPP was particularly hit by the lower spending from consumer goods groups such as Unilever and P&G, the trend of some clients to create marketing in house and by the upheaval sparked by the growth of Google and Facebook who can help clients to cut out the middle - man of the advertising groups.

California is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country, and that's prompting a wave of migration, particularly among lower - and middle - income residents, who are heading to cheaper states.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

With $ 1 billion of cumulative equity commitments, Carnelian focuses on lower - to - middle market equity investments in the North American upstream, midstream and oilfield services sectors.

«After 18 months of low - volatility markets, things became much more volatile in the middle of January, starting with a 10 percent slide within just weeks.

A 25 - year private equity veteran, Mr. Byrd has been directly responsible for leading the sourcing, financing, acquiring, operating and exiting of 11 successful Southeast - based, lower middle - market companies.

Star Mountain is a specialized asset management firm focused exclusively on the U.S. lower middle - market by investing debt and equity directly into established operating companies, making strategic investments into fund managers and purchasing secondary fund positions.

TVV Capital was founded in 1997 in Nashville, Tennessee by Andrew W. Byrd, a 25 - year private equity veteran who has been responsible for leading the sourcing, financing, acquiring, operating and exiting of 14 successful, lower middle - market companies.

Prior to founding TVV, Mr. Byrd was a Director and Executive Vice President of GenCap America (1987 - 94), a Nashville - based management buyout firm where he was responsible for leading the investments of four successful lower middle - market companies.

The lower middle - market private equity firm focuses sectors such as apparel and accessories, beauty and personal care, companion animal and consumer healthcare.

The California Housing Finance Agency (HFA) offers below - market interest rate programs for low - and middle - income first - time homebuyers applying for their first mortgages.

This sharp movement lower has been accompanied by action in the US bond market that isn't what one would expect to see in the middle of a selling...

However, in China the focus and composition of companies in the middle market account for a far lower percent of business services and consumer - focused business.

While large companies get these products from large banks at very low cost, middle - and lower - middle - market companies have almost no access to similar products and pricing.

Decide on two to four markets that have established free trade agreements with Canada (such as Europe, Columbia, Chile, Peru, South Korea, Australia), and some countries in the Middle East and Asia that offer low market entry barriers.

While these products are delivered «off the shelf» by large national banks to big customers, there is literally no small bank alternative for such lower - middle - market commercial loan customers.

The rules for small business and lower - middle - market lending are essentially unchanged.

Rights now many people are talking about the market being close to a bottom yet the same people may have a lower proportion of their equity in stocks compared to what they had in the middle of 2007.

As a general rule, borrowers that need loans with balances consistently larger than $ 2 million are too big for about 80 % of the banks in the U.S. Surprisingly, only about 6 % of the banks in the U.S. are larger than $ 1 billion in size and have the capital base to concentrate on middle - and lower - middle - market businesses.

On the other hand, small banks lack balance sheet size, geographic reach, back office infrastructure and product mix to satisfy the needs of most middle - and lower - middle - market businesses.

Prior to joining Oberon, Jerome held positions as Managing Director of Albany Capital Resources and Vice President at Sun National Bank, where he consulted with CEOs and CFOs of lower middle - market companies, targeting transactions between $ 5 million and $ 50 million.

Not surprisingly, these large banks own and originate most of the commercial loans in the U.S. Unfortunately, despite what they say in their marketing campaigns and in front of the TV cameras, the large national banks don't want to deal with lower - middle - market businesses and don't offer their best products to smaller borrowers.

We believe the Bush administration will be under increasing pressure in 2007 to argue for a guest worker amnesty as the U.S. middle class begins to experience increasing home foreclosures in a market where employment in the lower - skilled job categories are increasingly difficult to find.

They failed to take credit or make the case for the economic upturn, and how their policies have much to do with lower unemployment (5.8 %), significant debt reduction, healthy corporate balance sheets, greater financial stability (Dodds - Frank), record stock market numbers, as well as reducing the gap between high earners and the middle class through Obamacare and reducing the Bush tax cuts.

Camden Partners is a Baltimore - based private equity firm providing growth capital to lower - middle market companies in the education, healthcare and business services sectors.

Franchise opportunities with The Greene Turtle are available throughout the eastern United States to qualifying investors through The Greene Turtle Franchising Corp., whose majority stakeholder is JPB Capital Partners, a Columbia, Md. - based private equity partner for lower - to middle - market companies.

CBH managing director Andrew Crane said it was a «lie» to assume Australia would become Asia's food bowl because rival nations were improving productivity and lowering supply chain costs that were allowing them to steal market share in Asia and the Middle East.