By: Ken Hirsch Article originally printed in Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine, July 2021. Thanks to the confluence of several factors, both business owners and private equity investors are likely to find more, and more attractive, opportunities for dividend recapitalizations than outright sales of middle market businesses in the second half of 2021. Three trends are…
Last week many members of the Founders Advisors team volunteered their Saturday to serve the Birmingham community at two locations during its Summer Serve Day. The groups served at Cornerstone Schools of Alabama and the Rotary Trail. With school starting back next week at Cornerstone Schools of Alabama, the Founders team wanted to help them…
BIRMINGHAM, AL (July 6, 2021) – Founders is pleased to announce that PSIGEN Software, Inc. (PSIGEN) has been acquired by Kofax, Inc. (Kofax), a leading supplier of Intelligent Automation software for digital workflow transformation and portfolio company of Thoma Bravo. PSIGEN’s document capture software – PSIcapture – and its content management software – PSIsafe –…
By: Billy Pritchard In the world of private capital transactions, deal values and statistics are discussed primarily using the Enterprise Value metric. The term “Enterprise Value” is often defined as the total value ascribed to the business, inclusive of both the company’s equity and the debt used to finance operations. When deal values are reported…
Founders’ CEO, Duane Donner, recently spoke with Bloomberg about the current market environment. The full article may be read here or below: For 110 years, four generations of Mills family members earned their money by expanding their great-grandfather’s Chicago apron business into a medical supplier that ranked among the nation’s largest private companies. But soon…
By: Michael White As a business owner chances are that you have received numerous emails or calls from private equity investors wanting to talk about your business. It is also likely that some of your friends or colleagues may be involved in a transaction with a private equity investor right now. Valuations across healthcare, and…