Financing M&A

Financing the deal

Financing any business investment in today’s climate will be a much more involved process than it was in the recent past when capital was readily available. Rick Weil, director, investment banking for Mesirow Financial, outlines a number of ways acquisitions can be financed. “A large force in printing and packaging acquisitions over the last several years has been the growth in private equity firms. Private equity firms are pools of institutional capital (pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, among other sources) that invest in predominantly privately-held companies,” he says.