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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.

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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. If you have proprietary technologies, an especially strong client base or any other differentiating factor, this should be highlighted as you prepare to market your business. Always aim for a diversified client base.

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

Brian DeChesare

But the real question is this: If you accept an industrials private equity job, will you end up more like Andrew Carnegie or Henry Phipps, or will your career trajectory resemble a distressed tire manufacturing company that later declared bankruptcy? Many markets are still highly fragmented, so this can work quite well.

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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. Fixed expenses include property maintenance, professional fees, advertising/marketing, security, catering, and general/administrative.

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

FE International

Acquirers have continued to benefit from historically low interest rates and many sellers have opted to exit while the market is strong with multiples continuing to grow. With a surge in private equity firms entering the space, we expect to see an increase in demand for e-commerce businesses towards the larger end of the deal size spectrum.

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

Brian DeChesare

Resources to Learn More About Private Equity Value Creation What is “Private Equity Value Creation?” However, the “private equity value creation” team isn’t about spreadsheets but rather implementing changes that improve the company. Why is PE Value Creation Suddenly “Hot”?

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