by Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance

Private Companies and Carve-outs Dominate Middle Market Sales. The vast majority of middle market transactions have traditionally been either private company sales or carve-outs of non-core divisions of larger companies. That being said, private equity sales have grown rapidly over the past few years. With an average portfolio company holding time of four to seven years, private equity firms have started to sell some of the assets that they acquired as the M&A market began to recover in 2003....

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