Savvy Owners Want to Know...

Business owners are naturally intrigued by all the talk of high valuations and an overhang of private equity aimed to invest in or to buy independent private companies.

There is no doubting the appetite to growth-fund or outright buy strong performing middle market businesses has never been broader and deeper. 

Lenders are careful. Strategic buyers are feeling good. Private equity can be backing a strategic. And the risk of having paid a full price is made more manageable thanks to plenty of value-creation talent to promptly be added to improve and help to grow the business. Deal structuring varies widely.

It pays for business owners to track and monitor potential shifts in the ownership of competitors and likely impact on your suppliers and customers. Consolidators can change the balance and competitive landscape for your company.

If your company is interested in the industry-specific private financial markets, it is essential to get fully briefed and to get into the mindset you’ll need to navigate/prevail to completion.

With more and more ways of tapping equity/debt financing and strategic arrangements… more specialists and increased sophistication of issues, the bar for management continues to be set higher and higher. Being taken seriously requires both resources and preparation.

We can help in many ways as we have many times.

If you’re an owner/manager or advisor interested in how all this private market capital and M&A action relate for your business, just give me a call at 215-805-2093.

Patrick Hurley - MidMarket
phurley@mmadvisors.com