Over the last 25 years it has become harder to make money from building mid-market investor-backed companies. Investors now pay higher multiples, use less debt, face a more volatile environment, and largely back entrepreneurs rather than established management teams. For CEOs and Chairs, that increases the pressure to drive growth and value creation and, above all, to execute. That has made the ability to create robust teams and organisations both more vital and more complicated.
This handbook offers guidance on handling the most frequent team and organisation issues encountered pre- and post-deal in mid-market growth companies.
The basis for this advice is my 30+ years in the mid-market as an investor, researcher and almost 20 years as an adviser to mid-market firms in the UK and Europe. During that time, I have been involved in about 825 projects of which 770 have been as Catalysis. This provides a good database of experience from which to draw lessons about what works and what doesn’t.
Topics covered:
Deciding whether taking private equity investment is right for you now
Navigating transactions
Getting strategy and value creation post-deal
Making boards and executive teams more effective
Making senior appoints less likely to disappoint
Building organisations for scalability and exit
The focus is on practical checklists and explanation for busy CEOs and Chairs.
