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Byline: Ken MacFadyen
To many, the deal market may seem a modern take on Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." Buyers and sellers continually search for a sign that business has stabilized. For the deal community, the identity of Godot may as well be "visibility," and in its absence, few have any solutions other than to merely wait.
"We're sitting here today with capital that's available to deploy," Lawrence Golub, president of mid-market lender Golub Capital, told a crowd at ACG's InterGrowth conference in May. The problem, he adds, is that without earnings visibility, nobody can figure out what a business is truly worth. "The number of potential transactions is down by about 50% from a year ago, and of those that we see,...
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