Focus Investment Banking

MARCH 3, 2024

I’ve been doing transactions in the automotive aftermarket since helping America’s Service Station’s private equity owner sell 30 stores in Texas in 2002 to a strategic buyer. The first is Private Capital Markets by Rob Slee (John Wiley & Sons: 2011). And that’s all it took to become an investment banker.

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Focus Investment Banking

JULY 31, 2023

This article focuses on how medical practices are valued by private equity-backed groups, and to an extent, health systems and other strategic acquirers. Physician practices are almost always valued on a multiple of EBITDA basis in transactions with private equity groups or similar buyers. We explore each in turn below.

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Tyton Partners

APRIL 1, 2024

The Tyton community was thrilled to host Cole and Toby as they discussed their respective organizations’ roles and experiences within the sports and education ecosystem, the impact recent capital markets activities have made in this space, and how they imagine this section of the market may evolve in 2024 and beyond.

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Tyton Partners

JANUARY 18, 2024

Higher Education Transactions The Higher Education market continues to grapple with the reality of a declining enrollment forecast, decreasing value proposition due to the volume of job-specific courses and certifications available to students, and lessening degree requirements from many employers.

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How2Exit

MAY 2, 2023

Concept 8: Unlock Private Capital Markets One way to unlock private capital markets is to focus on businesses that have reached a certain level of success. By doing this, businesses can unlock private capital markets and ensure that their business is successful in the long-term.

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Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 6, 2023

While measurement and reporting standards continue to evolve, every major developed capital market around the globe is focused on implementing some form of mandatory ESG reporting,” Grant Thornton said. Companies that can demonstrate strong ESG programs are more likely to command greater valuations when it comes to a sale.

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Periculum Capital

MARCH 11, 2022

SHHS had spent the prior two years enabling its operations with the best technology tools, so Periculum positioned the company as a technology-enabled regional home-based care platform and contacted a large set of private equity and strategic buyers with a focus on this type of opportunity. appeared first on Periculum Capital.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 6, 2024

MidCap Advisors Stats Dowling & Partners Securities Dowling & Partners Securities specializes in equity research and broker-dealer services, providing investment banking services for insurance agencies as part of their capital markets department.

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Tyton Partners

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As the Federal Reserve moves toward a more predictable and potentially lower rate trajectory, financing conditions are expected to improve, enabling both strategic buyers and private equity investors to pursue transactions with greater confidence.

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How2Exit

JUNE 10, 2024

Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in underwriting IPOs for family-held businesses and tracking the evolution of private equity. The discussion dives deep into the evolution of the capital markets, the rise of private equity, and the intricate process behind selling a business.

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How2Exit

JULY 13, 2023

The criteria include factors such as valuation multiples, legal issues, availability of buyers, ESG focus, maturity, and competition. These individuals have ambitions for growth and are driven by business expansion, capitalization, marketing, and other related factors.

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Focus Investment Banking

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They whisper in the ear of these owner clients that today is not a good time to be in the capital markets, with high interest rates and limited activity. Quite the contrary, this market has provided substantial opportunities for brands that could be categorized as “unicorns.” What Attracts a Buyer to a Brand? It is not too late.

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The TRADE

APRIL 30, 2024

The regulation also led to changes in risk management practices and valuation methodologies for financial institutions. Market participants are required to assess the impact of the transition on their balance sheets, hedging strategies, and capital adequacy, as well as the potential implications for liquidity and funding.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, deal activity fizzled in the second half of 2022, as high inflation, aggressive anti-inflation monetary policies, geopolitical instability, assertive antitrust regulators and tightening financing markets depressed target valuations, reduced strategic acquirer confidence and sidelined private equity sponsor buyers.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

19 treatments from Pfizer, Merck and potentially others hitting the market soon , we expect Big Pharma to continue to parlay this cash flow into growth in other areas of strategic focus. The strong capital markets environment that has prevailed during the past few years has enabled a large number of development-stage and one?product,

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Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

From an improving M&A market to tech tools leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), key takeaways from RFDC include: Buyers are keen on franchise concepts Buyers, particularly private equity groups (PEGs) , remain focused on franchise concepts, a trend we expect to continue going into 2025.

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iMerge Advisors

APRIL 14, 2025

Summary of: What Buyers Are Looking for in AI and SaaS Company Acquisitions in 2025 As we move deeper into 2025, the M&A landscape for AI and SaaS companies continues to evolve shaped by macroeconomic pressures, shifting capital markets, and the accelerating integration of artificial intelligence across enterprise software.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 14, 2025

Capital Markets: Companies in most of these verticals use high leverage because they tend to own and operate assets with predictable/stable cash flows that are often locked in by long-term leases or power purchase agreements (PPAs). Distributable Cash Flow for Midstream companies).

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 30, 2025

The venture capital market is highly cyclical , which discourages some bankers from considering it. Join in a bad market, and you might close 0 deals and learn very little except how to start a podcast or Substack on becoming a VC influencer. But there is one lower Beta alternative: Corporate venture capital (CVC).

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We also expect mature, VC-backed companies to continue searching for exit opportunities and may see more “quasi” distressed sales in the first half of the year as their impatience for an IPO market more open to smaller issuers reaches a fever pitch. Read more from our 2017 M&A Trends Series. The Trump Effect.

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