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. This helps to ensure that businesses can access the funding they need to grow and invest in new projects. investment banking, private equity , VC, etc.)

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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. And when the family business comes calling, you typically answer. So it’s an industry I love.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

While some public strategics backed off, they were more than made up for by private equity companies with plenty of dry powder and a healthy competitive environment. speaks to a healthy environment, with multiples shored up by private equity buyers on the hunt for high-quality assets. 4Q22’s multiple of 5.6x

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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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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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Software Equity Group

JANUARY 29, 2024

You may think pitching your business to potential customers on a regular basis provides the experience needed to win over strategic buyers and private equity investors in an M&A process. Most private equity firms and strategic buyers can’t simply buy or invest in whichever company they choose.

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How2Exit

OCTOBER 2, 2023

rn Businesses can increase their value by working with professionals who can help them reach higher revenue thresholds and attract private equity firms. It is crucial for business owners to invest in sales and marketing initiatives to showcase the value and potential of their businesses.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The classification helps investors gauge the performance and growth potential to make future investments. When listed as publicly traded companies, they mostly become small-cap and micro-cap stocks trading on the exchange. However, other aspects must be considered before making an investment decision.

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Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 6, 2023

ESG isn’t just a matter for large, publicly traded companies. Moreover, “a strong ESG proposition can enhance investment returns by allocating capital to more promising and more sustainable opportunities.” This is particularly true if your partners are publicly traded or foreign-owned. “It

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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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Software Equity Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

Most private equity firms and strategic buyers can’t simply buy or invest in whatever company they want. Strategic Buyers These types of buyers run the gamut; they can be publicly traded or privately owned software companies. These firms aren’t relying solely on their own money to make investments.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Part of this is understanding what types of companies will be interested in acquiring or investing in your business and what potential offers will look like from different types of buyers. Do you understand the different categories of buyers, including private equity investors, and how they differ from one another?

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Acquisitions 52

Intrepid Banker Insights

MARCH 28, 2023

Intrepid Investment Bankers Warning Signs Your Business’s Liquidity Needs Attention Mixed signals dominate economic headlines as concerns persist about a recession beginning in 2023, if it has not already begun. Not a day goes by without hearing some new statistic that confirms or denies one’s own opinion.

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Tyton Partners

MARCH 28, 2024

Only McGraw-Hill retained its name, but it too had found itself subject to a split back in 2013, when it was sold out of publicly traded McGraw-Hill Companies to a private equity firm. Pearson then became Savvas Learning.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This partially explains why sports investment banking has become a hot field, with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs launching their own sports coverage groups. But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector.

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Stock prices and valuations of many leading public SaaS companies have fallen drastically from the beginning of 2022—but while that will affect the private market, it does not necessarily spell doom and gloom. This post will examine the current state of public SaaS company valuations and what it means for private companies.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 7, 2024

Buyer and Investor Activity We tend to group M&A buyers and investors into two main categories: strategic buyers and private equity firms. Strategic buyers typically want to buy a SaaS firm to grow or improve their own company, whereas a PE firm buys a SaaS business as an investment, intending to resell it later.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

Buyer and Investor Activity We tend to group M&A buyers and investors into two main categories: strategic buyers and private equity firms. Strategic buyers typically want to buy a SaaS firm to grow or improve their own company, whereas a PE firm buys a SaaS business as an investment, intending to resell it later.

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

WATCH NOW : Craft a Winning Pricing Strategy to Maximize ARR Growth and Valuation Net Retention in Public Software Companies: Insights from the SEG SaaS Index We recently began tracking net retention information in our SEG SaaS Index , which tracks the performance of 120+ publicly traded software companies.

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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. trillion. [2]

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

A survey conducted at the beginning of 2021 found that 61% of surveyed life sciences executives believed they had overperformed on digital transformation during the pandemic relative to their competitors and 67% expected to increase that investment. [2] billion in a bid to acquire cutting edge research capabilities.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 8, 2025

Ive said before that nothing on this site is meant to be investment advice. That said, my annual investment/market updates always get a lot of traffic, so I thought it might be interesting to follow up on this years update with more of an advice article. If youre reading this right now, youre probably much younger than me.

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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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