Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

I worked with the family business under the family’s ownership for three years and then with the private equity group who acquired and partnered with the family business as a platform for another three years. So let’s talk about taking on investors. And when the family business comes calling, you typically answer.

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The Deal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

At first blush, Ivest Consumer Partners LLC might seem an unlikely buyer for CloudCo Entertainment, which owns the Care Bears and other properties that combine consumer intellectual property and content. The investor describes CloudCo as a mini Warner Bros., ” approach. “It’s combining two separate but related businesses.

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Solganick & Co.

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But Samooha’s differentiated by its heavy reliance on the Snowflake ecosystem; Snowflake, unsurprisingly, was an early investor. million from investors, including Altimeter Capital, prior to the acquisition — valuing the startup at around $40 million post-money. Buoyed by that customer acquisition momentum, Samooha raised $12.5

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Solganick & Co.

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Identify and reach out to potential buyers, which could be competitors, financial investors (private equity firms), or firms in adjacent sectors. Negotiations: Engage with interested parties and entertain offers.

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Cooley M&A

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In what remains largely a low organic growth environment, deals were being funded by the record levels of dry powder held by private equity and cash piles repatriated by U.S. Money is no object, but good deals are increasingly hard to come by. corporations following the U.S. tax reforms adopted at the end of 2017.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 10, 2024

Amidst the miserable deal environment of the past few years, there has been one bright spot: sports private equity. Over two-thirds of NBA teams have a private equity connection or investment , and all major U.S. Table Of Contents Sports Private Equity Defined Why Did Private Equity Suddenly “Get Interested” in Sports?

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The Deal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Sloan’s first career was in entertainment, as he was the chairman of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Sloan still sits on the board of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. And sales of companies to investor Ron Perelman and private equity firms KKR & Co. trying to bring the Hollywood studio back from the dead.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Carve out tech acquisitions also continued to be attractive to strategic and private equity buyers, with GTCR’s acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay from FIS for up to $18.5 Private equity activity accounted for only 27% of tech M&A in 2023, a six-year low (and a substantial decrease from the 2021 record of 36%).

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Focus Investment Banking

MARCH 27, 2025

On this episode of Gain Traction , Mike Edge chats with Giorgio about market trends in the tire industry, how to prepare for an acquisition, and the role of private equity in fueling business growth. Once you go through that analysis, clean up the things that we know the buyers are looking for or investors.

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