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Exit Planning Through an Investment Banker’s Lens

Focus Investment Banking

Supplier Diversification If one supplier accounts for >40% of your sourcing, buyers become concerned, especially with risks like tariffs in 2025. Clean Up the Financials Five years of clear, consistent books build trustno formal audit needed, just detail. Consistently book expenses to the appropriate line item.

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How Mike Lampert Grew New England Truck Center Through Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

Mike Lampert: Right now our main focus, I mean we do towing heavy truck repair, we build and sell tow trucks. Chandler Kohn: Are you keeping the same logos on the building or are you rebranding? Even if they have like we go and get them a a good offer, they’re really concerned to make sure that sign stays on the building.

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Trouble in the Solar System: CFIUS Blocks Jupiter Acquisition Five Years After the Fact

JD Supra: Mergers

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Are You Running a Dealership or Just Owning a Job?

Focus Investment Banking

Last month, I discussed the importance of shifting your mindset from that of an owner to an operator to help ensure the long-term success, scalability and commercial viability of the business that you’ve worked so hard to build. They build organizations that can operate, grow and thrive without them. Create accountability.

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Bill Black on Scaling National Fleet Management

Focus Investment Banking

We’re scratching our heads and we, we looked and we’re like, man, we’re an independent repair shop with a Volvo sign on the building. So, you know, the game of growth and building to me is fun and it also allows me to attract high caliber team members that want to build because my dream has to be bigger than yours.

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Driving Change, Innovation & Emerging Tech Reshapes the World We Know with Steve Greenfield

Focus Investment Banking

I have some of the books that we’ll talk about later on on my phone in my Kindle app right now. I want to dive deeper later in our conversation into the books as I referenced, but in your book The Future of Mobility, you describe a fundamental shift in how people move and how vehicles fit into that. Right off lead.

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M&A Blog #19 – valuation (Leveraged Buy Out - LBO)

Francine Way

The major steps of LBO are: Building the Sources and Uses tables. Building a proforma balance sheet. Building a historical 3-statement model and a debt-interest schedule. Building the go-forward 3-statement model. Building the go-forward debt-interest schedule. Modeling the future exit.