Deal Momentum Entering 2026 Remains Strong Following a record-breaking 2025 — the most active year for US M&A since 2021 — deal momentum has carried into early 2026. US M&A activity totaled approximately $682B through Q1 2026 , up 39% YoY , marking the second-highest first-quarter volume in the past four years and underscoring continued…
By Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Marc Cooper As warmer weather returns and we adjust our thermostats, I sat down with Head of Business Services Group Tim Shea to discuss M&A trends in essential service sectors. Tim, your team had a record year of deal activity in 2025. What’s been driving the strength of essential…
By CEO Marc S. Cooper As 2026 unfolds, questions around US bankruptcies, capital structure stress, and the durability of recent credit strategies remain top of mind for investors and corporate leaders alike. This month I sat down with the firm’s Head of Capital Advisory Vinod Chandiramani to discuss what may lie ahead for financing, capital solutions, liability management, restructurings, the broader economy, and expansion…
Subscribe Episode Description Solomon’s Vinod Chandiramani , Head of Capital Advisory, speaks with M&A Director, Chris Moynihan , about the shifting dynamics in the private markets and liquidity strategies to proactively navigate current economic conditions. Transcript Chris Moynihan (00:02): You are listening to Solomon Partners Presents. I’m Chris Moynihan, and I’m here today with Vinod Chandiramani,…
By Vinod Chandiramani , Head of Capital Advisory , Solomon Partners In the current economic climate, companies face numerous challenges that require innovative solutions to maintain liquidity, grow, and manage capital structure dynamics. It is essential to develop and implement a prudent game plan rather than freezing and hoping for the markets to revert to…
The Evolution of Brand Management Companies Walking around Manhattan, it is common to see people sporting Champion sweatshirts, rag & bone jeans, and new Reebok sneakers. At first glance, it might seem like Reebok simply makes sneakers and sells them, yet it is more complicated than that. The Reebok brand is owned by an entity…
by CEO Marc S. Cooper Vinod Chandiramani joined Solomon Partners earlier this month as a Partner and Head of the firm’s Capital Advisory group. We discussed how he will leverage his expertise in nontraditional financing and capital structure solutions to expand the services Solomon provides to clients. Vinod, welcome to Solomon Partners. Can you…
by CEO Marc S. Cooper The merger and acquisition (M&A) world was a tale of two cities at the halfway mark in 2024. A smart rebound in strategic corporate deals has been offset by an estimated $3.2 trillion backlog of unsold portfolio assets on the books of private equity funds, which is holding back a…
by CEO Marc S. Cooper Since joining Solomon Partners in 2001, Joseph Stein has arranged more than $20 billion of capital for acquisitions, general corporate purposes, special situations, and recapitalizations. We discussed the state of the private credit market and financing options available to companies today. Joe, what role do boutique investment banks play in…
by CEO Marc S. Cooper Solomon continues to expand our Healthcare practice. In Q4 of last year, Karan Garg joined us as a Partner and Head of Healthcare Services where he works closely with Jon Hammack who oversees our Healthcare group. This month, I spoke with KG about his transition to Solomon Partners and his…
Embrace Change in An Uncertain World by CEO Marc S. Cooper The future is an ever-shifting maze of eventualities until one of them becomes a reality. Despite our best efforts to anticipate the course of human events, life tends to surprise us. Reflecting on the whirlwind of plot twists over the past year, it is…
Why Mergers Need A Long Game by CEO Marc S. Cooper Mergers and acquisitions are high-stakes undertakings, often with considerable financial, operational and reputational risk for the acquirer. Time Warner and America Online, Kmart and Sears, Google and Motorola — the list of multibillion-dollar deals gone wrong is a long one. Decades of case studies…
Rescue Financings Today – Silver Bullets or Too Much of a Good Thing? Rescue financings have evolved considerably in the past twenty years since the last true cycle of corporate distress in 2000-2003. Gone are the days when a CFO’s desperate search for one last liquidity solution, a silver bullet so to speak, would inevitably…
M&A Outlook: Neither Feast Nor Famine by CEO Marc S. Cooper The global M&A market faced headwinds last year, and a more muted pace of transaction volume seems likely to continue in 2023. To be clear, demand for mergers and acquisitions hasn’t collapsed. This isn’t 2008 or 2009, when a financial crisis originating in the…
