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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

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    ESOP, Recapitalization

    Agriculture, Natural Resources

    New York, Hong Kong

    Northeast US, Asia/Pacific

    United States, Canada

     

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    Lender News

    Marine Shippers Aim to Stay Afloat


    Excel Maritime and Seanergy Maritime are working towards restructuring their loans

    SBIC Lenders Grow in Small Bank Space


    Saratoga Investment Corp., Fifth Street Finance Corp. and Victory Park Capital Advisors LLC are among the lenders looking to move into a space previously occupied by community banks

    Repricings May Increase in Volatile Market


    Borrowers should evaluate credit agreements to take advantage of market windows

    Lenders Predict Volatility in Retail, Finance


    According to the Phoenix Management “Lending Climate in America” survey, lenders no longer consider construction the most volatile industry

    Finance Finesse:
    Amended DIP May Help Kodak Emerge From Bankruptcy


    Kodak is one of several large companies to convert existing DIP loans into exit financing

    Finance Finesse:
    Low Interest Rates Spark Refinancing


    Businesses are able to negotiate better deals in the current lending environment, resulting in many companies refinancing their loans

    Finance Finesse
    Fifth Street Gets New Lenders, Expands Credit Facility


    Fifth Street Finance chief executive tells Mergers & Acquisitions that loan volume is high

    Finance Finesse
    Lenders Increase Hold Sizes to Act as Lead Arrangers


    Interest in investing in the middle market is heating up, prompting lenders to increase their hold sizes

    Finance Finesse: Going "Glocal"


    Jim Lawson, Lincoln International's chairman and managing director, talks to Mergers & Acquisitions about the investment bank's worldwide expansion

    Finance Finesse
    Babson Capital's New Lending Group Starts Up


    Mergers & Acquisitions talks to Babson managing director Ian Fowler about the new middle-market lending group

    Raising the Stakes


    Madison Capital Funding recent partnership with Apollo Investment Corp. underscores the trend toward larger hold sizes in middle-market lending

    LENDER OF THE YEAR
    NXT Capital


    For CEO and founder Robert Radway, the firm's consistency since it burst onto the scene two years ago is simply an extension of what his team had always done in their years together at Heller and Merrill

    Choosing the Winners


    The deals and dealmakers who not only survived a challenging year but thrived in it

    Six Degrees of Heller


    Kevin Bacon may be the lynchpin for connections in Hollywood, but for Midwest M&A, many can trace their roots to Heller Financial

    Stalled CLO Market Shifts into Drive


    Dealmakers expect CLO issuances to reach $10 billion to $15 billion in 2011

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