He built JPMorgan's coast-to-coast banker network. Now exec John Richert says the middle market's moment is coming.
We have a lot of private equity funds that need to return capital to their LPs. They need to sell assets. You have a lot of funds that aren't going to be able to raise another fund but have a bunch of portfolio companies that they're going to need to sell. You've got aging baby boomers and founder-owned businesses that children are not wanting to take over the business.I think we're pretty optimistic on 2026. We have our highest backlog sell-sides that we've ever had.How are you feeling about the mid-cap M& ...