Roll Up Your Own: How Selling Several Companies At Once Can Increase Multiples
“To get the valuation you want,” Chris Bouck told the owner of a home services company, “you need more size and scale.” Bouck, a principal of SDR Ventures, a lower-middle market advisory firm in...
View ArticleDeal Stories: The Heat Rose Slowly for Amalgam’s HVAC Play
One thing that Arun Shukla and John D’Angelo had in common is they both approach deal-making with a lot of caution. Shukla, an engineer trained at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, had a...
View ArticleDealmakers: Winning Small Deals from Bulge Bracket Wealth Managers
For years, Charles Botchway had a pitch for the investment bankers at bulge bracket firms: send us the deals that are too small for you to handle yourself. Botchway is the founder and CEO of Madison...
View ArticleSeven Ways Family Offices are Different from Other Buyers of Lower Middle...
Like most other institutional investors in recent years, family offices have shifted a significant share of their assets from the public markets to private equity, real estate, and other nontraditional...
View ArticleWith the Supply Chain in Turmoil, Deal Making Gets Creative
The tumultuous state of the global supply chain seemed to be a blessing for one American auto parts company. With new cars scarce because of a microchip shortage, demand surged for the sort of...
View ArticleDealmakers: How This Firm Uses the Silicon Valley Playbook in the LMM
There has traditionally been a clear line between venture capital and private equity investors. VCs look for transformative technologies that could be the next billion-dollar unicorn. PE firms...
View ArticleEV Deals Hit the Accelerator
Any way you look at it, the electric vehicle market is gargantuan. EVs are often made in gigafactories, a term coined by Elon Musk for Tesla (of the $1 trillion market cap). The world’s 20 largest auto...
View ArticleSeven Ways Family Offices are Different from Other Buyers of Lower Middle...
Like most other institutional investors in recent years, family offices have shifted a significant share of their assets from the public markets to private equity, real estate, and other nontraditional...
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The Top 50 Lower Middle Market Consumer Investors & M&A Advisors [2022]
With inflation surging, many families are getting more selective about how they spend. Private equity funds and others looking to acquire companies that make or sell products for consumers are getting...
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