Axial’s Virtual Dealmaking Event (Axios Pro Rata)

An Axios Pro Rata item from May 2020 on a virtual lower-middle-market private equity event run by Axial.

Why it was kept

Kyle saved it under Micro PE. The item reports that 75 dealmakers and small-business owners joined Axial’s Zoom event in place of an in-person Dallas meeting; that large-market private equity was largely sidelined while lower-middle-market activity stayed active; Axial CEO Peter Lehrman’s point that small deals are driven by personal reasons (“death, disease, divorce, retirement”) as much as price; and that buyers were holding EBITDA multiples while moving risk into deal structure such as earn-outs.

As Kyle captured it

Kyle’s capture is the newsletter text itself, which stays in the private snapshot; the summary above is the public version.

Connections

Micro PE · Private Equity · Axial