In this episode of Looking Ahead, David Ingles and Stephen Amdur, partners at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, focus on the rapidly evolving financial industry.

Global manufacturing is expected to feel the impact of the spread of the coronavirus — not the least because China is a far larger exporter than it was during the 2003 SARS virus outbreak, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Is the United States ready for “private techquity”? That’s the name a consulting company gave to the adoption of technology in private equity, including machine learning and data-heavy databases.

Al Dominick speaks with Tom Michaud, President and CEO of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, about emerging financial trends to get a fresh perspective on the state of banking in the United States.

Barneys New York and other retailers have struggled in the age of the internet. But what if they had radically changed instead of continuing with business as usual?

Companies are increasingly staying private for longer, raising ever larger amounts from private equity and venture capital. SoftBank Technology Corp.’s Vision Fund took the lead in an $8 billion backing of Uber in January 2018, a little more than a year before the company’s IPO, valuing the business at $48 billion.

Two IPO experts share advice for private equity leaders ahead of going public. They also discuss popular types of IPOs, the trend of direct listings, and why super shares are bad for companies in the long term.

The shifting attitude of regulators has been welcome news for the industry after the roll-out of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, the most significant financial law in decades.

There were 1,900 deals in the space last year, according to Connecticut-based publisher Irving Levin Associates in its 2019 report “Seniors Housing & Health Care M&A in the 21^st Century.” For buyers, the cool kids on the block were long-term care facilities and physician medical groups, which led the charge for deal-making and consolidation.

Private equity is on the prowl for good deals in the healthcare space right now. There’s a lot of competition and money searching for an investment opportunity. Sometimes, those opportunities involve public companies looking to go private.