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Acquisition Criteria: What Every Private Equity Firm is Looking For

Value Scout

Private equity firms provide meaningful investment capital to growth-oriented businesses. Unlike venture capital firms, they do not invest primarily in start-ups. Businesses seeking expansion, change of investors, or even exit may benefit from private equity firms.

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How to Start a Private Equity Firm – and Why You Probably Shouldn’t

Brian DeChesare

If you search for “how to start a private equity firm” online, you’ll find results that range from useless to tangentially useful to occasional nuggets of real wisdom. Starting a private equity firm is a bad decision for ~95% of people who work in the finance industry. How Does It Work?

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Private Equity Value Creation: Equally Viable Alternative to PE Deal Teams?

Brian DeChesare

Private equity value creation came on my radar a few years ago when I noticed something: Even though traditional PE deal roles were not doing well, “operational” or “value creation” teams still seemed to be recruiting. What Does the Private Equity Value Creation Team Do in Real Life?

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Industrials Private Equity: The Best Place for Old-School Deals at Reasonable Multiples?

Brian DeChesare

If you ever tire of the hype around tech, industrials private equity might be an ideal hiding spot. Morgan’s acquisition of Carnegie Steel in 1901 – was an industrials private equity deal. Table Of Contents Industrials Private Equity Defined What Has Drawn Private Equity Firms to Industrials Companies?

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How to Sell an IT Business: Everything You Need to Know in Five Minutes

Sun Acquisitions

This is music to the ears of strategic acquirers and private equity firms. Strong EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) margins are always going to be a green flag for buyers. Private equity buyers who are after targets with stable cash flows and growth potential.

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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

Brian DeChesare

But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. Regulations – Does the league allow private equity or other financial sponsor ownership? What is Sports Investment Banking?

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E-commerce Is Booming – What Does That Mean for Me as a Seller?

FE International

At the lower end of the market, individuals are still leaving their jobs to buy businesses and at the higher end, institutional investors and private equity firms have more capital available than ever before. multiple of SDE or EBITDA. Aggregators vs. Private Equity Firms.