The Fed is hiking interest rates, inflation is eating away at debt capital investments, and stock markets are down (the S&P is off to its worst start since 1939 – down 13.3% YTD). Where should investors be looking to deploy capital? According to the 2022 Private Capital Markets Report (published last week), 30% of respondents […]
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In which direction is the lower middle market moving in 2022? In the midst of inflation, war, rate hikes, burnout, and labor shortage, the consensus at Calder is that sellers appear somewhat reluctant to come to market. Amid the uncertainty, many are skeptical of engaging an M&A firm to run a private auction process. Calder’s
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Before jumping headstrong into 2022, let’s reflect on our accomplishments in 2021. Calder’s buy-side team generated 360 proprietary leads, resulting in 215 conference calls and site visits and over 37 IOIs/LOIs. That is a hair under one proprietary lead per day! How do we do this? It’s 90% elbow grease combined with 10% data science.
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