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April 16, 2025
Q1 2025 Market Insights Update
Cabrera Capital Markets
Cabrera Capital Markets Advisory Group has published its latest Q1 2025 Quarterly Newsletter, which highlights notable M&A and capital market activity in the U.S. across various market sectors. Q1 2025 saw a recalibration in U.S. M&A and middle-market private equity after a better than expected 2024. While deal volume and value moderated amid persistent economic uncertainties, add-on acquisitions drove activity. Deal multiples compressed, reflecting a more disciplined approach to valuations. Despite lower fundraising, capital remains available. The market is characterized by careful execution and a flight to quality assets. Read the full report below. If you have any questions or want to learn more, reach out to Anshul Agrawal, Director of Advisory.
January 17, 2025
Q4 2024 Market Insights Update
Cabrera Capital Markets
Cabrera Capital Markets Advisory Group has published its latest Q4 2024 Quarterly Newsletter, which highlights notable M&A and capital market activity in the U.S. across various market sectors. The fourth quarter saw a notable uptick in M&A activity compared to Q4 2023, driven by improving financing conditions and narrowing valuation gaps. Interest rates have begun to stabilize, leading to a more favorable borrowing environment. This shift is expected to encourage both strategic and financial buyers to engage more robustly in M&A transactions as they seek to deploy capital efficiently. Although fundraising activity has slowed and dry powder has declined, there is still a substantial amount of dry powder available, and financial sponsors are ramping up their capital deployment. Despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainties, including geopolitical tensions and inflationary pressures, the overall sentiment remains optimistic. Investors are eager for liquidity events and are strategically positioning themselves for growth in 2025. Read the full report below. If you have any questions or want to learn more, reach out to Anshul Agrawal, Director of Advisory.
October 17, 2024
Q3 2024 Market Insights Update
Cabrera Capital Markets
Cabrera Capital Markets Advisory Group has published its latest Q3 2024 Quarterly Newsletter, which highlights notable M&A and capital market activity in the U.S. across various market sectors. The third quarter of 2024 has seen further diminishing macroeconomic headwinds and improving liquidity conditions. Q3 produced another quarter of recovery in the US for transactions with increases in deal value and count. LBOs, small to mid-market transactions, and add-ons continue to drive financial and strategic buyers. Banks are slowly making their way back to lending, but private debt remains plentiful as LBOs and refinancing activity increase. While the public markets have soared to record highs, the marketplace still faces geopolitical threats both home and abroad. Valuation multiples have increased on an EBITDA and revenue basis over 2023 levels. While it is a bit too early to say M&A is back to its 2021 peak, we are encouraged by the recent trends. Read the full report below. If you have any questions or want to learn more, reach out to Jason Frank, Managing Director and Head of Advisory.
July 16, 2024
Q2 2024 Market Insights Update
Cabrera Capital Markets
Cabrera Capital Markets Advisory Group has published its latest Q2 2024 Quarterly Newsletter, which highlights notable M&A and capital market activity in the U.S. across various market sectors. The second quarter of 2024 has seen further diminishing macroeconomic headwinds and improving liquidity conditions. While deal activity has been below expectations so far, add on acquisitions and small to mid-market transactions continue to drive financial and strategic buyers. Deal activity has slightly increased in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, but deal value is moderately lower. While the public markets have soared to record highs, the marketplace still faces the challenges of high interest rates and geopolitical threats. While taking a slight dip in Q2, valuation multiples have increased on an EBITDA and revenue basis over 2023 levels. While it is a bit too early to say M&A is back, we are encouraged by the recent trends. Read the full report below. If you have any questions or want to learn more, reach out to Jason Frank, Managing Director and Head of Advisory.
June 12, 2024
Cabrera Capital and NAIC Announce Multi-Year Partnership to Support Diverse Asset Managers
Press Release
The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC), the largest network of diverse-owned alternative investment firms, announced that it has partnered with Cabrera Capital Markets, one of the largest Latino-owned global investment banking and institutional brokerage firms, in a multi-year partnership to create new opportunities for and increase business interactions between diverse-owned alternative investment firms.
April 10, 2023
Q1 2024 Market Insights Update
Cabrera Capital Markets
Cabrera Capital Markets Advisory Group has published its latest Q1 2024 Quarterly Newsletter, which highlights notable M&A and capital market activity in the U.S. across various market sectors. The first quarter of 2024 has seen slightly diminishing macroeconomic headwinds and improving liquidity conditions. Deal activity has been steady with estimated deal count slightly higher relative to the past year, but deal value is moderately lower. Overall, debt to enterprise value slightly deteriorated in Q1, and debt to EBITDA ratios were also below long-term averages. Add on acquisitions and small to mid-market transactions continue to drive deal activity amid the challenges of tightened credit conditions, market volatility, and geopolitical threats. So far this year, valuation multiples have increased on an EBITDA and revenue basis. While it is a bit too early to say M&A is back, we are encouraged by the recent trends.
March 1, 2024
Cabrera Capital’s Public Finance Team Expands with the Addition of Three Former UBS Bankers
Press Release
Cabrera Capital Markets LLC announced three new hires in its Public Finance group. The new Public Finance bankers are Shawn Dralle, Managing Director based in Los Angeles and Head of West Coast Public Finance, Shawnell Holman, Executive Director based in Houston and Chris Bergstrom, Director, based in New York and the new Head of Public Transportation Finance.
January 18, 2024
Q4 2023 Market Insights Update
Cabrera Capital Markets
Cabrera Capital Markets Advisory Group has published its latest Q4 2023 Quarterly Newsletter, which highlights notable M&A and capital market activity in the U.S. across various market sectors. While overall valuations increased in the fourth quarter, global mergers and acquisitions transactions decreased to a 10 year low in 2023. The story was just as challenging for IPOs. While 2023 was affected by recessionary fears, inflationary pressure, consumer spending, and unemployment, current headwinds include Federal Reserve monetary policy and geo-political tensions. This market volatility has resulted in decreased deal volumes, as well as tight debt and equity capital availability and deployment. While the number of new large platform investments has decreased, transactions in the small to midmarket have been carrying the day. In spite of all this instability, the S&P 500 has surprisingly soared to near record highs.

Videos

Wealth Wednesday with Martin Cabrera of Cabrera Capital Markets

July 26, 2023 | Office of the Chicago City Treasurer

Cabrera Capital CEO Martin Cabrera participated in Wealth Wednesday, a weekly segment hosted by the Office of the Chicago City Treasurer. Martin joined Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin to discuss his career path and how it ultimately led him to the creation of Cabrera Capital. Martin also shared how the firm is making a difference in the community, especially in the field of financial education, through our partnership with Chicago Public Schools.

Diversidad e integración -- Diversity and Latino Inclusion in Business

October 28, 2021 | Mesirow

We discussed the challenges and opportunities facing Latino professionals in finance with Martin Cabrera, Jr., CEO of Cabrera Capital Markets.

Adding value to new bond issues is a relationship business

October 3, 2021 | Primary Markets TV

Adding value to a deal requires his firm to reach out to the 400 investor accounts – including smaller firms by assets under management – and ensuring that the breadth of investors increases pricing and liquidity transparency in the deal. Strengthening relationships with large broker dealer firms and focusing on the capital structure of clients will be core to growth over the next 12 months, Managing Director Santino Bibbo explains.

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