After a near-total shutdown in March, the leveraged finance market was able to regain some footing during Q2 2020. Direct lenders, who had spent much of March and April focused…
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“Fully Distributed” Workforces—A Megatrend of the Future?
Part 2: Combating the Challenges Five months ago, we realized that Carleton McKenna & Co, like so many other businesses, was about to undergo an unplanned, immediate and imperative shift…
Post-Crisis Industry & Equity Market Consolidation August 2020
Since its manifestation, the coronavirus pandemic has had an overwhelming impact and is poised to have a lasting effect on the economy. Although some major shifts may be a direct…
Chemicals Industry Update - 1H 2020
The chemicals industry was significantly impacted by two unprecedented and monumental events over the past few months: (i) the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and (ii) an ongoing price war…
"Fully Distributed" Workforces—A Megatrend of the Future?
Part 1: The Strengths & Opportunities At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, “distributed workforces” (fully remote organizations without central offices) were able to more quickly adapt to stay-at-home measures,…
Software Industry Update: A Highlight on Enterprise SaaS & Cloud Communications—Q1 2020
Software deal activity in Q1 2020, was not heavily impacted by COVID-19, as the majority of transactions under LOI managed to close without issue. LTM (last twelve months as of…