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Mid-cap banks team with pen pals overseas; Foreign partnerships help smaller investment firms find int'l buyers.

Publication: Crain's Chicago Business
Publication Date: 29-AUG-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Mid-cap banks team with pen pals overseas; Foreign partnerships help smaller investment firms find int'l buyers.(Focus: Finance)(Billow Butler & Co. LLC partnership with Mergers Alliance)(Brown, Gibbons, Lang and Company L.P. with Global M&A)(Lincoln Partners L.L.C. with Peters Associates AG and Guotai Junan Financial Holdings Ltd.)

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Byline: REBECCA JARVIS

If a company is losing business because it doesn't venture outside the U.S., then going global is a no-brainer. But until recently, size and a too-local focus kept Chicago's mid-cap investment banks off the radar overseas.

Now, those banks are getting smarter, going after partnerships that open up the lucrative international market. Some join existing global networks, while others start their own.

"It's almost imperative that we belong to an international consortium,'' says Bob Billow, managing director...

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