Recently I attended the wedding of my wife’s nephew, David and his beautiful bride, Kerry. It was great fun watching David, while standing at the alter awaiting his bride, mouth a “wow” to his family upon seeing his stunning bride enter the church and walk down the aisle. Appropriately, the service was uplifting [...]
Welcome To China
Investing in companies with subsidiaries in China creates challenges and obstacles not prevalent in the United States. Local customs, culture, labor law, commercial law, and taxation, but to name a few, are significantly different as is the challenge of financing middle market companies operating abroad. Over the years, we have been involved with several businesses [...]
Contacts Or Relationships, What’s In Your Database?
At MCM Capital Partners my primary responsibilities include direct sourcing of investment opportunities and managing intermediary relationships within the investment banking and buy-side intermediary community. As a result, I am thrust into the realm of networking: cocktail parties, dinners, golf, conferences, etc. Nowadays, it even entails online networking – blogging, LinkedIn, FaceBook, and Twitter. My [...]
Keeping Deals On Track
Four years ago, I joined the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors® (AM&AA), a trade organization bringing together investment bankers, private equity professionals, CPAs, attorneys and other corporate financial advisors for educational and networking purposes. This past month, AM&AA held its Summer Conference in Chicago which included over 400 M&A professionals discussing various topics ranging from valuation [...]
Customer (Dis)Service
My fellow associates and I began writing a weekly blog over one year ago which we publish regularly each Wednesday. Blog topics fall into one of four categories: Business Best Practices, General Economic Conditions, PE News, and MCM News. Four of us blog (we excused Kevin, our CFO because he actually has real work to [...]