Northeast Ohio Deal Activity: Rise in bankruptcies drive distressed M&A activity

Distressed M&A continues to be a defining feature of the U.S. M&A landscape throughout the remainder of 2023.
Bowden Manufacturing combated a workforce shortage by changing a job title

How does a manufacturing shop combat an ongoing machinist shortage? The answer at Bowden Manufacturing was to stop calling them machinists.
Pittsburgh Deal Activity: Signs of M&A optimism in the lower middle market

While megadeals have become scarcer in today’s economic landscape, M&A activity for smaller deals within the middle market have come into favor.
2023 Family Business Achievement Awards

The 2023 Family Business and Business Longevity honorees represent some of Northeast Ohio’s successful family-owned businesses that are growing for the next generation.
Northeast Ohio Deal Activity: Navigating M&A deal structures in a tightened debt market

Financing mechanisms are helping buyers and sellers navigate the challenges posed by higher borrowing costs and valuation gaps, fostering collaboration and risk-sharing to achieve successful M&A outcomes.
How Medina-based PPE manufacturer Fire-Dex adapts to changing needs

How the adaptability of Fire-Dex, a family-owned and female-run manufacturer of personal protective equipment, has led to double-digit growth.
Pittsburgh Deal Activity: Navigating M&A deal structures in a tightened debt market

Financing mechanisms are helping buyers and sellers navigate the challenges posed by higher borrowing costs and valuation gaps, fostering collaboration and risk-sharing to achieve successful M&A outcomes.
Columbus Deal Activity: Navigating M&A deal structures in a tightened debt market

Financing mechanisms are helping buyers and sellers navigate the challenges posed by higher borrowing costs and valuation gaps, fostering collaboration and risk-sharing to achieve successful M&A outcomes.
Northeast Ohio Deal Activity: Slowed inflation to temper rising cost of capital … hopefully

The Northeast Ohio M&A market experienced an uptick in deal volume in June 2023 of 4.2 percent as compared to May 2023. June also saw several noteworthy transactions in the Northeast Ohio region.
Pittsburgh Deal Activity: Slowed inflation to temper rising cost of capital … hopefully

Sharply increasing inflation rates over the past two and a half years in the U.S. are a result of several contributing factors, but none more than the relationship between the prices for goods and services, and the labor market. As the ratio of job vacancies to unemployment has steadily increased, labor market participants and […]