Banking & Finance

SEC improves client safety, but investors must play a role, by Matthew S. MacLean, chief operating officer and general counsel of Red Granite Advisors LLC.

Florida company acquires EMSystems of Milwaukee; Grafton software firm acquired by Houston’s DiCentral Corp.; New Jersey company acquires Jefferson Electric; Weyco acquires Umi brand; Milwaukee Forge CEO’s group to purchase company from receivership

Many business owners were not able to sell their companies before the start of the Great Recession, which greatly...

New niche team is Baird's 11th industry specific I-banking division

Five years after the sale of Strong Financial Corp. to Wells Fargo, many of the company's former executives and...

Milwaukee-based Grace Matthews Inc. recently brokered the purchase of Chaska, Minn.-based Lifecore Biomedical Inc. from Warburg Pincus Private Equity...

Many business owners were not able to sell their companies before the start of the Great Recession, which greatly slowed the pace of the mergers and acquisition marketplace.

In the year since the Wisconsin chapter of the Midwest Business Brokers and Intermediaries (MBBI) began holding quarterly events, the chapter has seen significant growth and continuing demand for its programming.

Headlines on business pages locally and nationally reflect the favorable environment for hostile and negotiated buyouts of publicly-held companies. Various factors mean strategic buyers, private equity funds, hedge funds and takeover specialists are well-positioned to pursue buyouts. Those factors include equity prices that are still below historical highs, needs to grow and some loosening of credit.

Banking Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions  ...