Lack of Infrastructure Creates Issues for Buyers of Corporate Orphans

About 15 percent of the Riverside Co.’s acquisitions have been of corporate orphans. However, buying a corporate orphan is tricky, because of the lack of infrastructure and the difficulty in merging corporate cultures, says Riverside's Robert Landis in this video with Mergers & Acquisitions contributing editor Danielle Fugazy. For more, see the roundtable discussion sponsored by KeyBanc Capital Markets, "Corporate Carve-Outs Generate Deal Flow.”