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The No. 1 issue facing private equity firms and strategic buyers today is: Where are the deals? There are very few deals out there, and those that are in the market are overpriced or mediocre and may still be overpriced. Hosted by SourceMedia and sponsored by Benesch Freidlander Coplan & Aronoff, this roundtable explored where financial and strategic buyers are finding deals, why it is so hard to find high quality deals at a good price today and where deal origination is headed.

The Riverside Company has enjoyed a lot of success since our founding in 1988 by finding great little companies and making them bigger and better. We’ve sold more than 100 companies in our history, and collectively we grew them more than 2.5x in size during our ownership. We adore smaller companies because there are more ways to improve them, making the upside much greater. It’s been a good run and we’re working harder than ever to keep it going for another 25 years in our fast-changing, hyper-competitive world.

February 01, 2014 Teeming With Targets Mergers & Acquisitions Matt Dailey

M&A activity in the financial services space is booming these days. Banks were spurred by regulators to comply with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Volcker rule, which prohibits depository banks from making investments that are deemed more risky and may not benefit their customers, and they started to sell non-core assets and assets that would make them non-compliant with the rule. Today, in addition to the compliance issues banks are facing, there is a confluence of factors playing a role in the increased M&A activity in the space, such as favorable valuations, a healthier economy overall and a strong financing market.

As U.S. corporations and private equity firms cast ever-widening geographic nets to find acquisition targets, Europe is proving to be a fertile spawning pool. The continent is teeming with middle-market companies that yearn to grow outside their home markets, and they’re looking for investors from across the pond to help them. A prime example is found in Reima Oy, a children’s wear brand founded in 1944 in Vantaa, Finland. The company had long been known in Northern Europe for making high-quality outdoor clothing, which it sells under brands including Reima, Lassie and Tutta.

March 01, 2013 Private Equity Firm Of The Year Mergers & Acquisitions Béla Szigethy Stewart Kohl

As one of the most active middle-market private equity firms in the world, The Riverside Company would likely be worth considering for first prize in the private equity category in any year, but the firm truly dominated in 2012. The firm, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2013, marked many milestones in 2012, including closing its 300th deal.

June 25, 2012 View From The ‘Summit’ Private Equity International Béla Szigethy Pam Hendrickson Stewart Kohl

In May, global mid-market firm The Riverside Company gathered chief executive officers, chief financial officers and outside board directors from its 81 portfolio companies together for a two-day conference known as the Leadership Summit.

Pam Hendrickson takes on a pivotal role in reshaping private equity’s image

The private equity industry could use a healthy dose of introspection, a greater willingness to adapt and a dedication to process improvement.

As it celebrates 10 years with a Dallas location, The Riverside Company has bolstered its team there with a new Senior Operating Partner.

Riverside Co-CEOs Stewart Kohl and Bela Szigethy discuss the ups and downs of being in the risk capital business and analyze some of their less successful deals to help deliver insight and how to look for the red flags.

Private Equity Interntional was granted unprecedented access to the soul of The Riverside Company, a large, global firm that pursues relatively small deals, requiring it to screen many opportunities with maximum efficiency. The article goes in depth about Riverside’s investment committee otherwise know as the MoM.

Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst interviews Pamela Hendrickson, Chief Operating Officer at The Riverside Company.

December 07, 2010 Matchmaking Can Be Beautiful Mergers & Acquisitions Béla Szigethy Stewart Kohl

Sometimes we feel like hopeless romantics, but we think intermarriage could solve all the world’s problems. When two people love each other, we expect a great relationship to bloom regardless of their backgrounds. Of course, things are more difficult in the real world and that’s particularly true with mixed marriages.

BBJ Q&A with Riverside co-CEO Béla Szigethy. Global private equity firm Riverside is active in the smaller end of the middle market, targeting companies with enterprise value of less than €200 million, and developing them through acquisitions and organic growth. Current co-CEO Béla Szigethy started Riverside as a small company-focused buyout shop in New York “at the same time as the Berlin Wall was falling.”

Mid-market funds are finding an edge during the global financial downturn.

Growing Number of Females are Seeing Leading Roles in the Private Equity Scene

How Does a Micro-Cap Fund Target a Global Franchise in a Growing Market?