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Holman: PE's Forecast Around this time of year most Americans are gathering at barbecues, beaches and parks to soak up the summer. But, after another round of thunderstorms rolled across the nation this past week the notion of whether summer will actually begin hung around as a question mark in this reporter’s mind much like the clouds shrouding New York’s skyline. It’s not exactly unlike the middle market transaction business where a lack of quality companies for sale, tough credit markets and portfolio company restructurings have combined to create the deal community’s version of an atmospheric low pressure system. In May it looked, though, as if one corner of the private investment industry was looking up. A pair of private equity consortiums took control of BankUnited Financial Corp. and First Southern Bancorp Inc., respectively. The acquisitions suggest that regulatory hurdles around ownership restrictions on bank investors might be easing, raising the prospect for other troubled banks to be salvaged through acquisitions by financial buyers all too eager to put their funds to work.
DEALS Off-the-Field
Issues ASC Signal Divests of Biz
Units Topspin Buys Vet
Biz Golden Gate Buys J. Jill
For $75M Filene’s Basement Up
For Grabs Again Filene’s Basement Up
For Grabs Again Qwest Keeps Its
Long-Distance Unit 
PEOPLE BSMB Vet
Re-emerges Piper Adds Traina and
Wirdnam FTI Hires Three Senior
MDs THL Enters BDC
Waters Mr.
Retail PE Expects New Investors,
Despite Credit Crisis 
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