Software Market Trends: 2024 Recap & 2025 Outlook
Mergers and acquisitions activity in the software sector has remained active over the last several years, with significant deal activity across key verticals. In 2024, deal activity picked up significantly off of 2023’s trough, with the number of SaaS deals increasing...
Post-Election Expectations for the 2025 M&A Environment
How might the election results impact you and your business? In 2024, buyers and sellers of privately held middle-market businesses moved slowly as if in heavy fog on a curvy mountain road. Is the fog lifting after the election sweep, tax outlooks, and better clarity...
Industrial Automation Market Trends In 2024
Transaction numbers in the Industrial Automation (IA) sector show overall healthy activity, with projections for 2024 suggesting a continued positive trend. Fluctuations in transaction volumes highlight the dynamic nature of the IA sector, driven by strategic...
Valuation Realities: What Is Your Company Truly Worth?
Privately held companies often represent the lion’s share of their owners’ total net worth, frequently exceeding the value of all other assets combined. Yet many hold notions of value that buyers would never pay. According to M&A professionals, unrealistic...
Transaction Outlook: Is 2024 the Year to Sell?
Business owners eat hard decisions for breakfast. Day after day, week after week, month after month, and decade after decade, owners address issues that impact the welfare of their businesses, employees, customers, suppliers, communities, and families. Yet one...
M&A Webinar: Understanding Transaction Options Available to Middle-Market Business Owners
Former middle-market business owners describe selling all or part of their companies as among the most difficult decisions they made in their lifetimes. Better and wiser decisions come from advanced knowledge. Blue River invites you to a two-part webinar series that...