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Middle Market Growth
The Middle Market Growth podcast features in-depth interviews with industry experts and middle-market dealmakers about trends impacting midsize companies and M&A. This podcast is a production of the Association for Corporate Growth. To learn more about ACG, visit acg.org. To hear more interviews with experts and thought leaders, subscribe on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Middle Market GrowthHow Can a CFO Add Value in a PE-Backed Exit Process?
The CFO role has evolved greatly in recent decades, and perhaps even more so within private equity-backed companies. Tom Pierce, managing director of the CFO…
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What’s Drawing Private Credit to the TMT Sector
The outlook for the technology, media and telecom (TMT) sector is bright—and, the experts at WhiteHorse Capital say, full of opportunity for investors. Mark…
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A CFO’s Perspective on Exit Readiness
As deal volume begins to recover and business leaders look forward to a falling rate environment, exit preparedness should be top of mind for finance leaders…
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How Forvis Mazars Built a Global Network
When in June 2024 FORVIS, a top U.S. accounting and advisory firm, combined with Mazars, an international professional services firm, the firms created a…
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Talking Nuclear Infrastructure Investment with Nano Nuclear
Government incentives and environmental mandates are expected to attract investors to nuclear energy, and the technological advances and infrastructure…
Middle Market GrowthStout’s Rudi Moreno on Value Creation During Long Hold Periods
Holding periods for private equity buyouts are growing longer, and the longer hold times are changing the way firms approach value creation. Rudi Moreno…
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Navigating The Competitive Private Credit Market
Private credit has been on a rocket ride since the great financial crisis, and the direct lending space has recently become white hot with new entrants joining…
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Insights on the Mid-Market Lending Outlook with TPG Twin Brook’s Pete Notter
As we enter the second quarter of 2024, middle-market dealmakers are optimistic about the M&A environment despite continued higher capital costs. Pete Notter…
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The Cybersecurity Risk of Renewables
Renewable energy M&A has been a hot topic in recent years, with S&P Global Market Intelligence predicting that 2024 will be a banner year for private equity…
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Discussing the Demand for Sustainable Fashion with Wearwell's Erin Houston
Sustainable fashion is a rapidly growing market, but conscious consumers struggle amidst the dominance of fast fashion and the ubiquity of greenwashing. Erin…
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Consulting the Crystal Ball with WhiteHorse Capital
After the ups and downs of 2023, the M&A market has been widely predicted to see a return to normal in 2024—but not everyone agrees with that assessment…
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Delivering Dividends: Investing in Accounting Firms
Since 2020, private equity firms and accounting firms have experienced a mutual attraction with multiple deals making their way to the finish line, and experts…
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Discussing the Aerospace And Defense Sector with Michael Richter
From naval ship repair to commercial aircraft engine machinery, the aerospace and defense supply chain is ripe with strong acquisition targets for dealmakers…
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Managing Wildfire Risk with AI
As demand for electricity continues to rise, energy companies are facing growing pressure to mitigate wildfire risks associated with aging utility…
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GF Data Report: Q3 Shows Valuations Rebounding
Those who remember the dark tone of the numbers from the second quarter may be happy to hear that there are signs that the M&A market is starting to revive as…
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Cell Therapy: A New M&A Frontier
Cell and gene therapy technologies are ascendent, boosted by new developments in treatments for diseases like ovarian cancer and Parkinson’s disease, and by…
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Mid-Market Lending Update with Twin Brook’s Betsy Booth
Middle-market businesses continue to feel the pressure of rising interest rates, inflation and other macroeconomic challenges. The ongoing strain on companies…
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GF Data Report: Q2 Brings Record Low Deal Volume
At the close of the second quarter of 2023, the numbers from private equity-sponsored middle market transactions showed that deal volume has cratered, and debt…
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A Conversation With Revive's Michael Alladawi
A Conversation With Revive's Michael Alladawi by Association of Corporate Growth
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GF Data Report: The Cost of Capital Hits Hard in Q1
In a complex and hard-to read economic environment, data can help us understand the dealmaking moment. In the first installment in an ongoing series, Bob Dunn…
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Taking the Pulse of Healthcare M&A with Twin Brook's Tim Wentink
Macroeconomic challenges and a choppy lending market have weighed on middle market M&A activity and impacted financing structures across industries in 2023…
Middle Market GrowthThe Changing Face of Media Liability Risk
***In the age of business websites, social media accounts and email marketing, almost every business publishes content, and with that content come media…
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Gaining Control of Health Plan Expenses
This episode is brought to you by QBE North America, a global insurance leader focused on helping customers solve unique risks to enable a more resilient…
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Protecting Your Business with Contractual Risk Transfer
This episode is brought to you by QBE North America, a global insurance leader focused on helping customers solve unique risks to enable a more resilient…
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Navigating Employment Practices Pitfalls in the MeToo Era
This episode is brought to you by QBE North America, a global insurance leader focused on helping customers solve unique risks to enable a more resilient…
Middle Market GrowthThe State of the Mid-Market with Twin Brook's Chris Martin
This episode is brought to you by Twin Brook Capital Partners, a direct lending finance company focused on providing cash-flow based financing solutions for…
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What Dealmakers Should Know About Tech M&A in 2022
As managing director and head of technology within the investment banking group at Stout, Tricia Salinero helps clients navigate the ever-more complex world of…
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Steadfast in a Fast-Paced Environment
This episode is brought to you by Twin Brook Capital Partners, a direct lending finance company focused on providing cash-flow based financing solutions for…
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Operational Excellence Series Pt. 4 - A Proactive Approach To Human Capital
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and consulting firm focused on the middle market. It's part of a four-part series that looks at…
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Operational Excellence Series Pt. 3 - Adapting Your Finance Function
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and consulting firm focused on the middle market. It's part of a four-part series that looks at…
Middle Market GrowthOperational Excellence Series Pt. 2: The Evolution of IT
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and consulting firm focused on the middle market. It's part of a four-part series that looks at…
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Operational Excellence Series Pt. 1: Closing Cybersecurity Gaps
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and consulting firm focused on the middle market. It's part of a four-part series that looks at…
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Family Office Series Pt. 5: Succession Planning Isn’t Easy—Here’s How to Get It Right
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm focused on the middle market. RSM develops multi-generational relationships…
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Family Office Series Pt. 4: Make Your Data Work for You
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm focused on the middle market. RSM develops multi-generational relationships…
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Family Office Series Pt. 3: Setting a Foundation for Good Governance
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm focused on the middle market. RSM develops multi-generational relationships…
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Family Office Series Pt. 2: Top 5 Tax Planning Trends
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm. RSM develops multi-generational relationships with family offices by…
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Family Office Series Pt. 1: Choose Your Structure Wisely
This episode is brought to you by RSM US, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm. RSM develops multi-generational relationships with family offices by…
Middle Market GrowthLending Perspective: Year in Review & 2022 Middle Market Outlook
This episode is brought to you by Twin Brook Capital Partners, a direct lending finance company focused on providing cash-flow based financing solutions for…
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M&A Tax: A Value Creation Lever in the PE Playbook
This episode is brought to you by RSM US LLP, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm focused on the middle market. **** George Douvris, a partner in RSM’s M&A…
Middle Market GrowthThe Importance of Information & Infrastructure
This episode is brought to you by Twin Brook Capital Partners, a direct lending finance company focused on providing cash-flow based financing solutions for…
Middle Market GrowthHow PE Firms Can Make the Most of Their Tax Data
This episode is brought to you by RSM US LLP, a leading accounting, tax and advisory firm dedicated to the middle market. **** Lauren Demas, a principal with…
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Churchill's Randy Schwimmer: Why the 2020s Are the "Decade of Private Debt"
Randy Schwimmer, co-head of senior lending at Churchill Asset Management and the founder and publisher of the Lead Left, joins the podcast to talk about the…
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The State of Direct Lending in the Middle Market
This episode is brought to you by Twin Brook Capital Partners, a direct lending finance company focused on providing cash-flow based financing solutions for…
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The Beauty of Being a BDC
David Magdol, president and chief investment officer of Main Street Capital, a business development company, joins the podcast to talk about deal activity over…
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Sun Capital's Patient-Centered Approach to Health Care Investing
Sun Capital Partners' Managing Director Dan Florian and Principal Stephen Cella join the podcast to talk about their firm's approach to health care investing…
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Seeking Diversity? Think Outside the Box
Organizations are waking up to the call for greater diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and middle-market companies and financial services firms are no…
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Pritzker Private Capital's Paul Carbone on the Benefits of Flexible Capital
Paul Carbone, president and managing partner at Pritzker Private Capital, a family investment firm based in Chicago, joins the podcast to talk about his firm's…
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Family Office Dynamics: People Over Process
This episode is part of ACG's Family Office content series, brought to you by RSM US LLP, a leading accounting, tax and advisory firm dedicated to the middle…
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End-of-Year Outlook with RSM Economist Kevin Depew
Kevin Depew, RSM US LLP's deputy chief economist and leader of the firm's national industry eminence program, returns to the podcast to discuss the state of…
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Middle Market Growth Awards: What to Know
This fall, Middle Market Growth magazine announced its first-ever awards and recently extended the application deadline to December 15. On this bonus episode…
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Lending Through the Pandemic: The Value of Deep Relationships
This episode is brought to you by Twin Brook Capital Partners, a direct lending finance company focused on providing cash-flow based financing solutions for…
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Get Ahead of a Business Crisis: Tips from QBE's Head of Claims
This episode is brought to you by QBE North America, part of QBE Insurance Group Limited, one of the largest insurers and reinsurers worldwide. *** Eric…
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Bain Capital Credit's Global Head of Private Credit on COVID's Long-Term Impact
Michael Ewald, the global head of private credit at Bain Capital Credit, joins the podcast to discuss how private credit has fared during the pandemic and…
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Rising "Social Inflation" Is Putting Midsize Businesses at Risk. Here's Why.
This episode is brought to you by QBE North America, part of QBE Insurance Group Limited, one of the largest insurers and reinsurers worldwide. *** John…
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Vertical Bridge's Founders on the Business of Wireless
Two co-founders of Vertical Bridge, Alex Gellman and Bernard Borghei, join the podcast to discuss the pandemic’s impact on telecommunications infrastructure…
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Preparing for an Era of "Big Government"
Kevin Depew, RSM's deputy chief economist and leader of the firm's national industry eminence program, returns to the podcast to discuss the state of the U.S…
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Private Equity Perspectives on Animal Care in the Pandemic
In July, law firm Katten published a report about private equity activity in the animal care sector, based on survey responses from private equity investors…
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Now Is the Time to Build Your Leadership Bench
The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 has led many businesses to focus on challenges related to working capital, supply chain, or the accelerated shift from…
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Surveying Risk in the Middle Market with QBE
This episode is brought to you by QBE North America, part of QBE Insurance Group Limited, one of the largest insurers and reinsurers worldwide. *** Tom…
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Inside the Deal: HKW & Fresh Direct Produce
Closing a deal in 2020 can be challenging, particularly when the parties involved operate in different countries. Yet HKW announced in July that its portfolio…