Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 6, 2023

ESG isn’t just a matter for large, publicly traded companies. While increasing revenue and profits are almost always the corporate goal, ESG can expedite the process and make it sustainable. This is particularly true if your partners are publicly traded or foreign-owned. In other words, companies can “do well by doing good.”

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Financial buyers, particularly private equity firms, have kept M&A volume afloat in the systems integration sector, accounting for 57.1% Private equity buyers have opted to acquire systems integration businesses almost exclusively through their established portfolio companies, or add-on’s.

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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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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

Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention. In other words, they placed a high value on profitably growing targets. As mentioned earlier, profitability earns a premium as well.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention. In other words, they placed a high value on profitably growing targets. As mentioned earlier, profitability earns a premium as well.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

With record amounts of deployable capital behind them, private equity (PE) investors account for nearly 60% of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in tech today. Do you understand the different categories of buyers, including private equity investors, and how they differ from one another?

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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 20, 2022

For example, early in 2021, Zimmer Biomet Holdings announced that it would spin off its spine and dental businesses into a new publicly traded company as a way to “optimize resource allocation” among its remaining businesses. Even setting COVID?

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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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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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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 8, 2025

Contributions: Yes, contribute to your investment accounts regularly out of your paychecks or profits, but build a 1-year cash reserve first (you could shorten this if its unrealistically high). In investing, your portfolio of publicly traded assets should be your main quest, and everything else should be a mediocre side quest you can ignore.

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