Brooke Ansel | The Benefits of Mezzanine Financing

On this week’s episode of the M&A Masters Podcast, we are joined by Brooke Ansel, Vice President of Prudential Private Capital. She runs a Prudential team focused in the southern United States, but her career path to the investment company was unconventional – it started with the Neiman Marcus buying team.  Brooke tells us about […]

Jon Finger | The Benefits of Building Relationships with Independent Sponsors

Our guest for this week’s episode of M&A Masters is Jon Finger. Jon is a Partner at McGuireWoods LLC in Dallas, and his practice focuses on private equity and corporate transactions. He and his partners were the first in the area of independent sponsors to create a private equity practice dedicated to independent sponsors. Jon […]

The “Dating Site” for Lower Middle Market M&A Deals

Pre-pandemic, the M&A world was all about hitting the road, with companies meeting potential capital providers or Buyers personally in board rooms all over the country. That’s a lot of airline miles. But for the last year or so, the majority of business development has been done online. And an innovative online platform that facilitates […]

Scott MacLaren | The Keys to Longevity in Private Equity

Our guest for this week’s episode of M&A Masters is Scott MacLaren, Partner of The Sterling Group in Houston. The Sterling Group is a private equity firm, one of the oldest in the country, and currently has $4 billion of assets under management.  Scott did not start off in private equity – he studied at […]