Few companies consider deals below $5 million EBITDA – and even fewer launch roll-ups with an asset that small. But The Riverside Company does just that, with an international edge.
It’s not that US firms are better operators – there are a number of structural reasons for the performance gap between European buyouts and their American counterparts.
Dedicated operating partners are scarce in the small- to mid-market. But counterintuitively, these firms’ operational successes have led them to outperform large buyouts.
Private equity involvement in healthcare has been controversial for many operational reasons — we can now add digital innovation to the list.
2024 has seen a renewed interest in midmarket deals. Successful post-facto value creation, though, will rely on buyout firms’ ability to navigate human capital needs.
Edison Partners’ $15M deal with energy AI tool Seismos leaned on Edison Edge, the firm’s operations platform. Such a platform is a rarity for a lower mid-market dealmaker.