Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The benefits of going public are significant. First, there’s the ability to raise substantial capital by issuing shares to the public in an initial public offering (IPO), as well as secondary offerings. Lastly, going public is a liquidity event for the founders and early investors, allowing them to cash in on their success.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

My parents started a collision repair equipment company back in 1988, ended up not joining the family business right out of school, but went the investment banking route and sometime into that the family business came calling. I can tell you there is tremendous interest in the collision repair industry for private equity buyers.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 17, 2025

After college and a foray into investment banking, Strandberg joined the family business, and remained with it after it was acquired by a private equity group. About three years ago, he joined FOCUS Investment Banking , where he works on mergers and acquisitions and raising capital within the collision repair industry.

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OfficeHours

MAY 16, 2023

Market Liquidity Hedge funds are large and active players in nearly every financial market, including equities, publicly traded credit, options, futures, commodities, etc. investment banking, private equity , VC, etc.) You can also check our various course curriculums for different careers (i.e.

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Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 13, 2023

On April 23 a group led by private equity firm TPG agreed to acquire OneOncology, the nation’s largest independent community oncology network, in a deal valued at $2.1 While the biggest recent deal, OneOncology is hardly the first oncology platform to be sold to a private equity group. Alliance Health Services.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

And will that mean that some of the privately held management consulting firms or other professional services companies will choose an IPO this year? There are only a few publicly traded companies in specialty consulting. But those companies have been public for more than 20 years. It seems that the trend is to stay private.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When listed as publicly traded companies, they mostly become small-cap and micro-cap stocks trading on the exchange. At the same time, lower middle market private equity firms are more interested in this segment because of the variety of firms they get to seek across different sectors and industries.

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Solganick is a data-driven investment bank that specializes in IT services and software companies and has advised on multiple M&A transactions within the covered sector verticals. Financial buyers, particularly private equity firms, have kept M&A volume afloat in the systems integration sector, accounting for 57.1%

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Intrepid Banker Insights

MARCH 28, 2023

The M&A markets became significantly more challenged in the second half of 2022, and deal activity reported by investment bankers and private equity financial buyers has slowed down, with uncertainty and rising financing costs playing prominent roles. Capital sources, like all of us, do not like surprises.

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Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 6, 2023

ESG isn’t just a matter for large, publicly traded companies. This is particularly true if your partners are publicly traded or foreign-owned. appeared first on FOCUS Investment Banking LLC. It’s increasingly becoming a must for small and medium-sized businesses. Contact Anna at anna.brumbywhite@focusbankers.com.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McKessons acquisition of PRISM Vision Group is an important milestone for private equitys investments in optometry practices. At the same time, there has always been uncertainty about the ultimate home for these assets, since private equity does not keep its investments forever.

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Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Private equity-backed ophthalmology groups have seen significant growth over the last eight years, with more than 30 platforms establishing themselves in the market; most completing numerous add-on (individual practice) acquisitions. Other groups have sold within the private equity space.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 8, 2025

Main Quests and Side Quests: Always focus on your main story quest, i.e., your portfolio of liquid, publicly traded assets, and ignore or deprioritize the side quests, such as becoming a mini-VC or investing in real estate. But if you were right, you could have bought back in at a 50%+ discount as central banks were starting to intervene.

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