Business Owners Don’t Operate Without a Report Card: Get an Estimate of Value Imagine your kids going to school, kindergarten through high school, without ever receiving a report card. As a parent, how…
Advisors What’s Driving the Valuation Gap in the Middle Market? January and February 2016 brought the lowest middle market M&A deal volume for that time period in 25 years. Many…
Advisors 3 Aspects of Cultural Due Diligence to Consider Legal and financial due diligence are necessities for a successful M&A transaction. Given the increasingly complex nature of most deals,…
Advisors 7 Things to Consider in IT Due Diligence IT due diligence is too often overlooked when it comes to lower middle market acquisitions. We wrote recently about the benefits…
Business Owners Free eBook: The CEO’s Guide to Maximizing Company Valuation in 2016 You’ve worked hard to build your business. Determining what your business is worth, to whom, and why is one of…
Business Owners PE Basics Every Selling CEO Should Know Thinking of selling your business? If you’re considering financial buyers — firms and executives who make investments on companies in…
Advisors 3 Overlooked Issues in M&A and How to Solve Them It looks like 2016 is going to be a very strong year for M&A deal volume overall. This isn’t so…
Business Owners What’s Your Number? One Metric That Could Make or Break Your Business Here is a question for corporate finance executives seeking either growth capital or ownership transition: Do you know your EBITDA…
Business Owners Questions Investors Ask on a Management Call — and Conclusions They Draw When we are interested in an opportunity, we build two lists of questions: one data-specific list for written response and…
