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Mergers & Acquisitions News & Insights
M&A Press Releases
Focus Enterprises, Inc. and Elfcorp International Ltd. Announce Strategic Affiliation
Client Companies to Gain Resources and Regional Expertise in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe
Washington, DC - April 30, 2003 -- Focus Enterprises, Inc. today announced an affiliation with Hong Kong-based Elfcorp International Limited, a business development and strategic advisory firm. The new affiliation will supply their respective client companies with exceptional opportunities for …
Twelve Value Drivers Help Ensure Success in Today’s Tough M&A Environment: PART 1
Tim Johnson Joins Focus Enterprises
In March, Tim Johnson joined the firm as a Principal. With experience at CIBC World Markets and Salomon Smith Barney in New York City and at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey in the Washington, D.C. area, Tim is a valuable asset to our clients, adding solid financial credentials and transactional expertise to the firm.…
Strategic Partnering: How Focus Enterprises Can Help
Strategic partnering services assist Focus clients in finding and developing relationships with other companies that have products and/or technologies that can benefit from additional sales channels, marketing skills, engineering expertise, manufacturing capacity or investment.
Strategic partnering arrangements can take the form of a license agreement, a joint venture, a sale and service agreement, a contract …
FOCUS Enterprises, Inc. and Elfcorp International Ltd. Announce Strategic Affiliation Client Companies to Gain Resources and Regional Expertise in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe
Washington, DC (April 30, 2003) - (BUSINESS WIRE) - FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., the Eastern U.S. region's premiere investment banking and consulting firm for middle-market and smaller companies, today announced an affiliation with Hong Kong-based Elfcorp International Limited, a business development and strategic advisory firm. The new affiliation will supply their respective client companies with exceptional …
Keep Strategy Front and Center in Merger and Acquisition Integration
FOREWORD: For over 20 years Focus Enterprises has maintained that strategy should drive M&A activity, not the reverse. In the article below, Mitchell Lee Marks focuses on the characteristics of successful integration and persuasively argues integration aspects of the same case. Reprinted with the permission of the author, this article also appeared in The Deal …
Timothy P. Johnson Joins FOCUS Enterprises, Inc.
Washington, DC (March 11, 2003) - (BUSINESS WIRE) - FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., the region's premiere investment banking and consulting firm for middle-market and smaller companies, today announced that Timothy P. Johnson is joining the firm as a Principal.
"With experience at a variety of major investment banking firms, Tim Johnson will be a valuable asset …
Private Equity Investing: Today’s Challenges
Private equity groups, including holding companies and early stage venture capital firms, face growing challenges today more than they have since the mid-to-late 1990s. With the public markets currently closed, a very slow economic recovery and the lowest corporate valuations in a decade, private equity investors are spending almost 100% of their time concentrating on …
Letter from our Chairman
Dear business associates and friends of the firm,
Last year was a productive, profitable and very hectic year for Focus Enterprises, Inc. Despite a very soft economy and a depressed merger and acquisition environment our firm booked record revenues and profits during 2002. Many staff additions were made during 2002 and four major transactions were …