Partnering with PE for larger deal

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by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School
in New York, NY, USA

1yr ago

Partnering with PE for larger deal

I would like to hear of experiences people have had with partnering with PE on larger deals. For example, as an individual raising $3-7MM in equity and then going after larger deals with lower middle market or middle market PEs.

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reply by an investor 1yr ago
from Duke University in Austin, TX, USA

I think you will find that the PE funds will want a deal structure where the searcher receives substantially less equity than even a traditional search and way less than a self funded search.

reply by a searcher 1yr ago
from University of California, Berkeley in San Francisco, CA, USA

As Mark mentioned, PE have their own structures and its very different than SFs. Sponsorless funds might be a stop gap (below traditional PE) but I think they want to drop $20+ a deal but they sometimes do unitranche so that number is the full cap stack.