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How to Judge a Value Creation Partner for Private Equity Before You Sign
The wrong value creation partner does not just waste a fee. It burns two of the three years you have to move the number, and it…
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What a PE Deal Partner Needs From Portfolio Analytics
Most analytics work inside portfolio companies produces dashboards nobody uses to make a decision. I have sat in enough operating reviews to know the pattern. A…
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The Best Tech Due Diligence Firm for Private Equity Is the One That Prices Deal Risk in EBITDA
The best technical due diligence firm for private equity prices every material finding in EBITDA and time, writes to the deal partner instead of to engineers,…
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How to Judge M&A Consulting Firms When You Are the One Underwriting the Deal
The wrong M&A consulting firm does not just waste a fee. It anchors your investment committee to a diligence read that the business cannot support, and…
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What AI Readiness Tells You in a Deal, and How to Score It
I’ll identify the colon-stacked H2s and fix them, while verifying external sources are properly cited. Let me count the colon-stacked H2s: 1. “Tier 1: quantify the…
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The Technology Remediation Decision a Deal Partner Owns
A red flag in a technology diligence report is not a decision. It is an invoice waiting for someone to sign it. And the person who…
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Board Reporting for PE Portfolio Companies That Drives Decisions
Most board reporting inside private equity portfolio companies is built to survive the meeting, not to change a decision. That is the problem. A CFO assembles…
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How to Hire and Judge a Post-Merger Integration Consultant When You’re Backing the Deal
Short answer. Hire a post-merger integration consultant before you sign if the thesis depends on combining systems, teams or customer bases, and no later than the…