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The Evolving Private Equity CFO: New Leadership Requirements Emerge from 2025 Market Outlook

MorganFranklin Consulting’s “Private Markets 2025 Outlook: Resurgence in Deal Activity, Liquidity” paints an optimistic view of dealmaking in the new year, and points to continuing shifts in the private equity landscape. As executive recruiters specializing in PE portfolio leadership, we see these market dynamics impacting what PE firms require from …

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Designing Executive Compensation That Drives Value Creation in PE Portfolio Companies

Designing effective executive compensation in private equity portfolio companies requires walking a tightrope. Get it right, and you create powerful alignment between management incentives and value creation goals, driving both operational improvements and successful exits. Get it wrong, and you risk everything from lackluster performance to the loss of key …

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FTC Finalizes Sweeping Changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Pre-Merger Notification Rules

On October 10, 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized sweeping changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) premerger notification rules (“Updated HSR Rules”), introducing substantial changes to disclosure and reporting requirements for transactions. As discussed in our previous analysis of the proposed changes, these Updated HSR Rules significantly increase …

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Are There Too Many ‘Chiefs’ in Your C-Suite?

In a recent study, LinkedIn’s Working Insights team analyzed over 100,000 U.S. hiring decisions that included the word “chief.” The result? They found 51 variations of C-suite titles. Long gone are the days when the C-suite included only CEOs, CFOs, and COOs. Today, we’re seeing an explosion of “chiefs” in …

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