Marketplace trends focus of symposium

June 8 - Green Bay Press Gazette - I just got back from the 2008 Midwest Business Brokers and Intermediaries annual symposium for lower-middle market mergers and acquisitions companies. More than 80 professionals attended the event in Milwaukee.

We heard from lenders, private equity groups and business intermediaries and discussed trends in the marketplace. Here is what I've seen, and what I learned:

• Lending has tightened, no surprise there, but not across the board. For lower-middle market deals, those with revenues between $1 million and $30 million, the lenders were clear: "We have money to lend." Read More.