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With increasing EV/EBITDA multiples amid a space overflowing with equity capital, successful private equity firms (PEs) are shifting towards a model that emphasizes Value Creation. Some firms have separated this function out analogous to the division between “Business Development” and “Investment Team”, with names...

Value Creation can be driven by making use of various levers at the portfolio company level, including sales & marketing, operations, HR, IT, legal, and finance. Sapling Financial Consultants Inc. (“Sapling”) focuses its value creation driving activities around the financial planning & analysis (“FP&A”)...

Stress Testing is the use of financial models to test the resiliency of businesses through “stressed” situations, such as this crisis. The main purpose of Stress Testing is to plan remedying actions to put the company on a sound financial basis, and to answer questions...

A QoE is aimed at providing the buyers with an understanding of “How much money does the business sustainably earn”? A QoE analysis is a routine step in the due diligence process for private M&A situations, new investments, and follow-on financing deals. QoE typically focuses...