Buyers Five Ways Tariffs Are Impacting M&A Deals In 2018, our firm conducted dozens of customer due diligence engagements on behalf of private equity and strategic buyers. While…
Business Owners What Does an M&A Advisor Charge? Investor Brent Beshore, founder and CEO of adventur.es, a Midwestern-based permanent equity firm, recently published a book called “The Messy…
Advisors Stop Negotiating Over Email, Says This Investment Banker Technology has made a lot of things easier for deal professionals. Information about potential buyers and sellers is available with…
Business Owners 6 Tips for Transitioning From a Founding CEO For lower to middle market private equity funds, a key value creation lever can be the successful, collaborative transition of…
Buyers The Independent Sponsor Model: The 101 Guide The independent sponsor model is not new, but its popularity has really risen in the last five years. Still, for…
Business Owners Too Much Customer Concentration at the Top Can Ding Your Value in an Acquisition Let’s say you were doing business with just one or two very large customers. Your business could, quite rightly, be…
Business Owners How to Arrive at a Realistic Valuation for Your Business Every CEO considering a sale wants to know the answer to one question: how much is my company worth? But…
Buyers Five Areas to Bring Immediate Value to an Add-On Deal With add-on acquisitions at an all-time high, companies are often challenged in executing an effective integration plan. There’s always much…
Business Owners How Third-Party Due Diligence Can Help You Uncover Future Earnings Potential In due diligence for earnings and legal issues, best practice dictates the use of a highly qualified, third-party assessment. Â So,…
