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Generalist Funds Are Not Dead

“If you can deliver to your investors what they’re looking for, generalist funds are not dead,” says Gretchen Perkins of Huron Capital Partners LLC in this video, shot at ACG InterGrowth 2013. Buying lower-middle-market companies and pursuing add-on deals is still Huron’s strategy, she explains, but the nuances of present-day fund raising have changed. For more coverage of Huron, see the most recent edition of editor-in-chief Mary Kathleen Flynn’s column, “Private Equity Perspective: Prepared Firms Prevail.”
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  • SLIDESHOW

    The M&A Scene: CEO Leadership
    Dealmakers gathered at the Harvard Club in New York on May 7 as part of ACG NY's CEO Leadership event. Peter Gonye, a co-leader within Spencer Stuart's private equity practice in North America was the keynote speaker. Panelists included M. Tatum Pursell, senior adviser, Unlimited Horizons; Tony Ecock, general partner, Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe; Jim Follett, former CEO of Authentic Response Inc.; Doron Grosman, operating partner, Court Square Capital; and Joelle Marquis, partner, Arsenal Capital.

    Watercooler

    10 Startups Marissa Mayer Bought Before Tumblr
    Summly, a news-sharing service Yahoo picked up in March for $30 million, tops the list of purchases the new CEO made before the $1.1B deal for Tumblr

    Dealmakers

    3Qs With…Chris Randall, executive vice president, NBH Capital Finance
    NBH Capital Finance will focus on the lower middle market

    Columns

    Remark Media Refocuses on Young Adults
    Remark has operated at a loss since inception but is now focusing on growing its personal finance group, as well as media properties

    references

    Fund of Funds, Lender

    ESOP, Recapitalization

    Agriculture, Natural Resources

    New York, Hong Kong

    Northeast US, Asia/Pacific

    United States, Canada

     

    People Database

    Exclusive data on top players in capital markets

    Kristen Campana

    Partner

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    Food & Beverage

    News

    Cloetta Picks Up Candy Maker Goody Good Stuff


    The target manufactures candy without fat, dairy, gelatin, nuts or artificial colors, from fruit juices

    Food Delivery Services Seamless and GrubHub Merge


    Both companies allow users to order food take out or delivery from mobile phone applications or online

    Alliant, Bellisio Foods, TransDigm


    Alliant buys Savage Sports; Bellisio Foods picks up Overhill Farms; TransDigm purchases Arkwin Industries

    Wind Point Combines Two Food Manufacturing Cos.


    Hearthside Food and Ryt-way Industries will boast 19 manufacturing facilities in seven states

    PE-Backed Bellisio Buys Competitor Overhill


    Overhill produces frozen foods for Boston Market, Jenny Craig, Target and others

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    Articles

    Ron Burkle Taps Frothy Beer Market


    The $100M deal comes as Northern Brewer receives an undisclosed investment from Entrepreneur Partners, amid a frothy time for the sector

    DEAL OF THE YEAR
    Starbucks


    The $620M purchase of Teavana comes closest to our idea of leveraging M&A to take a company into new territory

    Bidders Line Up for Hostess


    The Wonderbread and Twinkie maker has choices to make as its auctions approach in February and March

    M&A Completions by Industry - 2012


    Forty-two was the maximum number of deals for one particular sector. Find out which industry came in last with just one deal

    February 2013 Digitial Edition


    http://digital.themiddlemarket.com/themiddlemarket/201302#pg1…

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