Market Insights

  1. Treat your life like you treat your business

    Article originally published on Business Alabama in July 2021. By: Duane Donner After several years running a business, many successful entrepreneurs find themselves reaching a time where they realize that they have prioritized work over almost everything else in their lives. Smart business owners that find themselves at this crossroads take the opportunity to reassess…

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  2. Time to Take Some Chips off the Table

    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…

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  3. Founders 2021 Summer Serve Day

    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…

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  4. Founders Advises PSIGEN Software, Inc. in Acquisition by Kofax, Inc.

    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 –…

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  5. How Enterprise Value Translates to Net Transaction Proceeds

    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…

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  6. A Record Buyout is Just the Start as Wealthy Flee Tax Hike

    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…

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