Townsend Managing Director Bo Pennell shared key insights on the continued demand for specialized roles at middle-market private equity firms in the Middle Market Growth Fall 2023 issue. “It’s more competitive and harder to find the true impact-makers and game-changers— they’re in more demand than ever, and their compensation is …
On June 27, 2023, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking representing the most substantial alterations to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) since it was enacted by Congress in 1976. In amending the premerger notification process, the FTC cites …
A New Landscape for Private Equity Proposed Under Hart-Scott-RodinoRead More »
While Aristotle famously considered the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts, the private equity model of the 1980s may have disagreed. At the time, the space was heavily focused on leveraged buyouts and distressed investments. Firms purchased companies to break them up and sell them off …
Misperceptions of Private Equity: What Candidates Should KnowRead More »
For decades now, Townsend Search Group has been obsessing over the specific nuances, organizational structures and executive characteristics distinguishing middle market private equity companies from their founder—and family-owned counterparts.
