A New Route to Wall Street (Lance Turner Editor's Note)
Many of us hadn’t heard of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, until last year, when they were suddenly everywhere. read more >
Many of us hadn’t heard of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, until last year, when they were suddenly everywhere. read more >
There was a miniature failed corporate overthrow that you might have missed earlier this month. read more >
Franklin McLarty's MDH Acquisition Corp. finds a crowded field in the SPAC market, which has grown exponentially in the past couple of years. read more >
A newly formed real estate investment group paid more than $32 million for the Village on the Creeks commercial center in Rogers. read more >
An affiliate of CorePoint Lodging of Irving, Texas, sold the 261-room hotel in downtown Little Rock to an affiliate of MD Hospitality Group of Chattanooga, Tennessee. read more >
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has partnered with McLarty Capital Partners of Little Rock to launch a private investment fund the two groups said could inject $100 million in rural small businesses. read more >
Mark McLarty, whose McLarty Automotive Group has purchased a handful of dealerships in Arkansas and Missouri in the past 18 months, isn’t alone in building a dealership portfolio. read more >
The Delta Regional Authority is partnering with the White House Rural Council to host the Rural Opportunity Investment Conference Jan. 11-12 in West Memphis and Memphis. read more >
As an SBIC, McLarty Capital has the flexibility of working with a business as a lender or as an equity partner with a minority or majority position. The seven deals it has closed to date represent a mix of each kind. read more >
Little Rock's CapRocq Core Real Estate Fund Ltd., a real estate partnership that buys real estate assets in the South and Midwest, has completed two closings that bring the fund's acquisition total to more than $130 million. read more >
Little Rock’s CapRocq Core Real Estate Fund Ltd. expanded its holdings with two out-of-state investments totaling about $18.5 million. read more >
Franklin McLarty, 39, has had careers in hotels, automobiles, global business and politics. From 2003 to 2005, he was vice president of McKibbon Hotel Group. In 2005, he joined the family business, RML Automotive of Little Rock, helping manage auto dealership franchises across the country. He also is a senior adviser to the Markham Group of Little Rock, a political affairs and campaign management firm. read more >
Franklin McLarty is well into his second career at RLJ McLarty-Landers Automotive. He assumed the post of CEO at the beginning of the year. read more >
Dewitt Smith, Kevin Huchingson, Franklin McLarty and Ted Dickey announce CapRocq Core Real Estate Fund L.P., boasting $50 million in initial capitalization and two acquisitions. read more >
