This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Founders team invested in the local community by working at Barrett Elementary School to improve the facilities for the children who attend. Barrett Elementary is a pre-K through 5th grade school with over 500 students on the outskirts of downtown Birmingham. A bi-annual tradition, Founders staff spends one…
By: Chris Weingartner Most owners of Managed Service Providers, at some point, will consider selling all or part of their company. Whether the transaction is prompted by a desire to retire, pursue other career objectives, or simply take advantage of a robust market for MSP acquisitions, there are some basic preparations that owners can take…
At the beginning of each new year, the Founders team comes together at the Birmingham headquarters to reflect on the prior year and look forward to the one ahead. After gathering for a big team breakfast, the firm took time to revisit our goals from the beginning of 2022 and recognize the achievements of the…
Amidst continuing consolidation in the industry, many owners of Managed Service Providers and other IT Services companies are assessing whether the time is right for them to take some chips off the table and consider undertaking a transaction. Given the years of effort and energy it took to grow their company to a transaction-ready size,…
Founders hosted friends and colleagues for the annual, world-class Impact Leadership Conference on Wednesday, December 7th featuring Dr. John C. Maxwell, Pastor Chris Hodges and best-selling author, Jamie Kern Lima. The virtual conference, formerly John Maxwell Live, was a held in Birmingham, Alabama at Church of the Highlands’ Grandview Campus. The free-of-charge event provided attendees an incredible…
By: Billy Pritchard Preferred vs. Common When assessing one or multiple Term Sheets or Letters of Intent involving a private equity recapitalization, founders often need guidance on a critical piece to the deal structure: the classification of stock that the PE investor will hold post-closing. For private capital transactions in the lower middle market, we…