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Building Bridges, Closing Deals: Mastering Rapport & Zero Down Strategies w/ Matt Bodnar

How2Exit

He focuses on lower-middle market acquisitions, predominantly involving blue-collar, value-oriented, and baby boomer-owned businesses. Matt's portfolio is diverse, including companies that manufacture sinks, pallet racking, and a stint in IT and software businesses, demonstrating his value-driven, long-term investment approach.

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Many of these firms use debt to fund deals, and they complete bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies. The specific growth strategies used by portfolio companies could include almost anything, but a few common ones are: Paying for employees, buildings, and equipment to enter new geographies or markets.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

The Top Industrials Private Equity Firms Mega-Funds and “Large” Private Equity Firms Upper-Middle-Market (UMM) and Middle-Market (MM) Firms Special Situations, Stressed, and Distressed Firms Newer / Smaller PE Firms with Some Industrials Focus How Do Industrials Private Equity Deals Work?

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FOCUS Investment Banking Represents Chenega Corporation in its Acquisition of SecuriGence LLC

Focus Investment Banking

Washington, DC (June 7, 2024) – FOCUS Investment Banking (“FOCUS”), a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture, and corporate finance services, announced today that Chenega Corporation (“Chenega”) has acquired SecuriGence LLC. FOCUS represented Chenega in this transaction.

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Market Insights: Global Automotive Deal Volume Declines, Macro Challenges Continue – First Half 2023 Recap

Focus Investment Banking

However, activity decelerated significantly during the latter half of the year, with larger deals experiencing a more pronounced decline compared to middle-market activity. To ensure continued success in this rapidly transforming market, industry leaders and executives must thoroughly evaluate their company portfolios.

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FOCUS Investment Banking Represents CORE Industrial Partners in its Acquisition of National Manufacturing Co, Inc.

Focus Investment Banking

Further, National’s ability to collaborate with customer engineering teams during the design phase can help expedite the process of bringing new products to market and ensure leading product quality in terms of both performance and aesthetics.

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: The Start of Great Financial Crisis 2.0?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Insufficient/No Hedges – Rather than hedging their entire MBS portfolio with interest-rate swaps, the bank had… no swaps at all as of the end of 2022 ( oh, and no Chief Risk Officer, either ). billion loss on a $21 billion portfolio. In early January , I predicted that the markets in 2023 would be “Bad, but not as bad as 2022.”

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