Checkout Pitchbooks nice dashboards summarizing key metrics for the first quarter of 2016 in M&A, PE and VC showing that number of M&A deals are down but that VC deals are getting larger.       Pitchbook’s full 1Q 2016 M&A datagraphic     Pitchbook’s full 1Q 2016 PE datagraphic […]
  According to Citizens Commercial Banking who surveyed 600 middle market CEO’s, 2016 is the “Time to Act”.   The report finds that waiting on the sidelines where organic growth continues to be slow, M&A remains the best strategy for growth.   Despite high EBITDA multiples the debt to equity […]

Middle Market Outlook for 2016