By Lou Sokolovskiy, CEO & Founder at Opus Connect
October 2020

Introduction

Independent sponsors and capital providers within Opus Connect’s extensive middle market M&A network are a valuable source of insight into the current state of their deal flow during the first eight months of 2020. Our findings in this report seek to illuminate the ways in which independent sponsors have both adapted to change and where they continue to pick up and go forward after a pause during the global economic slowdown. The inherent variability in the independent sponsor model led to a diversity of responses within participants’ deal flow and access to capital.