in a large number of transactions
across a wide spectrum of industries
Once, middle market meant one thing: local, perhaps regional, companies that rarely looked farther afield unless they were aquired. That's no longer the case. Middle-market companies now operate in national even global, markets. And as companies fo, so go their advisers. With roots deeply planted in robust regional markets, so-called midmarkets nationals like WIlliam Blair % Co. LLC, Key Banc Capital Markets Inc., ABS Capital Partners, Gulfstar Group or Farlie Turner & Co. LLC have followed their clients out of Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, Houston, or Florida and gone hunting for new clients in new places...