Getting Your Business Ready
Michael McGregor is Managing Director at FOCUS Investment Banking. His ...
What We Love About Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology M&A has been very active. All of FOCUS' recent transactions have been with private-equity backed buyers.
In the automotive aftermarket, it’s e-commerce—or else
If you’re an automotive aftermarket retailer and you’re not selling online, you run the risk of being left behind. If you are already selling online, great—but you may need to up your game if you hope to stay competitive going forward. Indeed, having a holistic sales approach—physical stores and e-commerce—may be the best way to compete in this rapidly changing and growing business. M&A may be the quickest way to get there.
FOCUS Enterprise-Focused Telecom Technology Quarterly: Summer 2022 Report
Public Markets Continuing its downward slide, the FOCUS Enterprise-Focused Telecom ...
Build Your Business with a Buyer in Mind
Most entrepreneurs start a business based on one or two of many potential reasons---it could be to exploit a unique skillset or access to talent, pursue a passion or simply meet a need otherwise not being met in the marketplace.
Selling Your Human Capital Management Business – Choose a Professional or Go It Alone?
As a business owner, you are faced with a lot of decisions, and when the time is right to sell your company, you’ll have a couple more decisions to make. Do you hire a professional to help you or do you go it alone? And if you hire a professional, which type of firm do you choose?
Pay, Perks, and Customer Service: How the Industry Needs to Change
Industry operators are going to have to treat their employees and their customers better if they hope to remain competitive.
What’s the Difference Between a Broker and an Investment Banker?
When contemplating the sale of your business, you may consider hiring a business broker or an investment banker. But what’s the difference between the two, and do you really need either one? Here are some things to consider.
Venture Capital Invades Precision Metalworking
Once in a great while something comes along that has the potential to change everything. We think that day may have come in precision metalworking.
E-commerce M&A to Stay Red Hot in 2022
Following a record 2021, the M&A market in e-commerce is already off to a flying start in 2022.