OfficeHours

AUGUST 23, 2023

Come listen to Alice speak about her time recruiting as a Lazard IB Associate into TCV Growth Equity! She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business and her master’s degree from Harvard Business School.

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How2Exit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

-Ron rn rn rn About The Guest(s): Juan Braschi is the CEO of Boopos, a company that helps talented buyers acquire businesses and provides flexible financing for buying e-commerce and software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses. Juan has a background in finance and technology, and he has experience in investment banking and private equity.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 18, 2020

Private equity firms continue to drive transaction pace and value. This blog post analyzes the significance of the statistics included in our ,, Second Quarter 2020 Sica Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index. They have enormous amounts of dry powder that they must deploy and continue to have access to very inexpensive debt.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 8, 2024

EBITDA Multiples for Insurance Agencies, 2018-2024 (Projected) M&A Deal Volume for Insurance Agencies, 2018-2024 (Projected) *S&P Global Data taken from ,,, “Insurance Brokers and Servicers Sector View 2024” The most important news this data offers is that insurance M&A is not actually in the tailspin that many “experts” claim it to be.

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Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

Many of these causes have their equivalences to the reasons behind the sale of a company (also known as a divestiture): Liquidity: As the equity holding period matured, investors (private equity funds behind companies) will look to sell.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 6, 2024

Founded in 2014, they have consistently ranked at the top of the S&P Global Data's rankings for investment banks, totaling an average of 100 deals per year. Their size also provides a hidden value for prospective clients in that it ensures that the firm's principals touch on every deal that they handle.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 26, 2024

private equity firms, investment banks, individual investors). The best approach is to work with a professional company that offers these services, which can take any form, from small business brokers to large investment banks, depending on the agency size. Valuation is a process in and of itself.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

The History of Private Equity in Insurance One of the primary forces differentiating the insurance M&A market in 2024 from those of decades past is the presence and dominance of private equity (PE) firms in the buyer space.

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Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As we have reported throughout the year, the M&A market for insurance brokers remained at peak, pre-pandemic levels despite all of the public health, political, social, and economic dislocations. S&P reported that the number of insurance brokerage transactions closed in 2020 slightly exceeded those in 2019.

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