Join us as we kick off the fall season with a DealMakers Breakfast featuring Kevin Callaghan, Managing Director of Berkshire Partners.  Kevin will discuss a range of topics covering the current dealmarket – historic trends, the capital market cycle and trends in leverage ratios – as well as potential investment strategies given the current environment [...]

The New York Times is reporting on a new magazine that will hit the stands for investment bankers in November: Dealmaker.  Doubledown Media, the company that publishes Trader Monthly, is introducing this new magazine after its success focusing on how traders make and spend their money, allowing the magazine to attract the financial sector and advertising of luxury [...]

The New York Times’ Dealbook reported on Vanity Fair’s October issue last week, noting that the magazine has run its latest "New Establishment" list, which ranks the people who influence our culture the most, based on their power, wealth, vision, etc.  This year Vanity Fair does not ignore the financial sector, including on the list Steve Cohen, Steve Schwarzman and [...]

Harris Williams & Co. acted as an advisor to Red Hawk Industries, a portfolio company of Florida Capital Partners, in the company’s signing of a definitive agreement to be acquired by UTC Fire & Security, a business of United Technologies Corporation.  The transaction, expected to close within 30 days, is being led by Patrick Crocker [...]

CFO Magazine reports this month that the private-equity sector is a hotbed of employment opportunities for CFOs.  "The CFO is so important to these companies," Walt Williams, an executive recruiter with Battalia Winston International, says, "that often the private-equity firm will recruit a finance chief before any other management team members." 
The article states that [...]