Why do M&A Masters love the lower middle market?
You get the opportunity to aggressively scale family businesses…
In this episode, I’m joined by Justin Smith of LongWater Opportunities, a private equity firm based in the Midwest.
Justin’s firm has firsthand experience growing family businesses, and he’s here to share his expertise.
In this series on the protection offered by Transaction Liability Private Enterprise (TLPE) insurance to small- and medium-sized business owners who are selling their companies, I’ve written about how it is especially useful in M&A transactions involving tech companies, as well as so-called “indifferent buyers.”
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You’re a small to medium-sized business about to be acquired by a much larger Strategic Buyer. You want some measure of protection during the transaction, and you’d prefer not to let a large portion of the sale proceeds sit in escrow for years in case some or all of it could potentially be clawed back if there is breach of a rep in the purchase agreement.
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There is a new R&W product taking the lower middle market M&A world by storm: Transaction Liability Private Enterprise (TLPE).
TLPE insurance is designed to fit a blind spot in deals that Buy-Side R&W policies won’t cover, specifically deals ranging from $1M to now $30M in enterprise value. Historically, these deals have been ineligible for traditional (R&W) coverage. Enter TLPE, which was innovated by London-based CFC Underwriting just one year ago, to offer protection for deals that are either too small or too expensive to justify a Buy-Side R&W policy.
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