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We expect the primary [Biglaw] deal will come from the Second Hundred, and we do assume it’s going to come back in calendar yr 2026.
— Bob Maiden, an M&A adviser with Focus Funding Banking, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, in regards to the probability {that a} personal fairness agency will spend money on a Second Hundred agency earlier than the tip of the yr. “To begin with, the cap desk is smaller. In our world, that implies that there’s fewer resolution makers,” he mentioned. “Within the Second Hundred, you continue to have founders which are lively of their companies. In a few of them, they nonetheless have possession. You may say, there’s 100 fairness companions, however on the finish of the day there’s solely so lots of these companions that actually make the choices.”
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