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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. Degrees such as an MBA or a Ph.D.

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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?

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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. Businesses such as this often have recurring revenue, scalability and efficiency in spades.

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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.

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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. For a long time, sports teams and franchises were not worth that much, so banks rarely put their “A-Teams” on these deals.

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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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