M&A Isn’t Dead, Apparently

I recently interviewed Hector Cuellar, the President of McGladrey Capital Markets, on the state of M&A in the middle market. According to him, it’s not as dead as everyone says. You just need to know where to look. What is keeping an investment banker like yourself busy these days? There is a “mood” that deal volume is down, but we never felt that on the origination side. We got 11 mandates in January. The only difference is, a year ago those would have been around 80% sell side and 20% buy side. Now it’s around 65 to 35. What industries are the mandates coming from? Well there is no distress in the aerospace and defense sectors yet.

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