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Kirk Griswold, Founding Partner of Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Argosy Capital, describes his firm’s investment in Atlantic Diagnostics.

Ted Carroll of Noson Lawen Partners describes his firm’s investment in and exit from Dolan Media.

So many LPs have “Canada envy” in coveting direct investment capabilities, but very few will have the financial or governance wherewithal to make this happen.

THL Credit’s Jim Hunt offers candid advice on picking a lender and tells why alternative finance is poised for growth

Ted Virtue, CEO of MidOcean Partners, predicts a bonanza this year for PE firms looking to acquire sub-$500-million companies and to exit existing investments

Earl Macomber, a Partner at media-focused private equity firm Noson Lawen Partners, discusses his firm’s investment in Greenleaf Book Group.

The story of how Dallas-based Highland Capital Management acquired distressed industrial waste manager Safety-Kleen and realized a four-times return.

A co-investment program gives an LP a “front-row seat” to the due diligence and underwriting techniques of GP groups, according to Nitin Gupta, a Partner at New York-based Caspian Private Equity Partners.

Mark Jones, a Partner at buyout firm River Associates, says add-ons are an attempt to make a portfolio company “more attractive to the next buyer.”

Findings of the latest EY Capital Confidence Barometer, which measures the confidence of participants in the M&A market.

Marc Utay, Managing Partner of Clarion Capital Partners, tells why he likes the smaller end of the middle market.

Entrepreneurs and growth-stage companies are critical to economic growth, and EY is committed to supporting the ecosystem surrounding entrepreneurs, says to Herb Engert, Americas Strategic Growth Markets Leader at EY.

The “shrinking” of traditional banks as middle-market lenders is opening up opportunities for fleet-footed alternative financial companies, such as THL Credit, led by CEO & CIO Jim Hunt.

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What held back deal volume in the private equity secondaries market in 2012, and what will drive more robust deal flow in the years ahead?

How new regulations for the US stock markets have made it harder for venture-backed companies to go public. With Jim Robinson, a leading venture capitalist.

A wide-ranging conversation with Glenn Youngkin, COO of The Carlyle Group. Youngkin gives a detailed overview of Carlyle’s macro world view, its inner workings, and his own expansive role at the firm.