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Building Portco Resiliency Right Now

Aug 5, 2020 2:55:31 PM | Posted by Doug Reifschneider

The COVID-19 crisis has changed the economy in extraordinary and unexpected ways. But private equity firms can help their portfolio companies take some crucial steps in weathering the storm, and recovering when the clouds lift.

The world's best epidemiologists only have models to predict the full depth and breadth of the COVID-19 pandemic, but companies are already feeling the economic fallout. They're scrambling to find the best way to respond, and in many cases, survive, all the while being rightly concerned for the health of their families and communities. It's not easy, and this is no time to pretend otherwise.

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How Fractional Executives Can Fill Leadership Gaps that Private Equity Firms are Facing

May 18, 2020 1:22:33 PM — I recently had the opportunity to join Katie Mulligan Editor-in-Chief from Middle Market Growth magazine to discuss why every company in the US needs to reevaluate and consider relaunching their commercial engine. This post is an edited transcript of our interview. You can see the video in its entirety clicking below:

Hey GP, Where’s Your Digital Transformation?

May 14, 2020 3:00:00 PM — “Digital transformation” is a phrase we hear and read about constantly. It’s in countless articles and thought leadership pieces targeted at marketers, CEOs, investors, and other business leaders. It’s a topic that’s brought up in almost every meeting we have with private equity firms as well as at most PE-focused events. It gets used so much that it has become one of those omnipresent buzzwords in danger of losing its meaning, like “Big Data” and “The Cloud”.

Private Equity Portfolio Triage During COVID-19 – Are Investors Missing Something Big?

May 4, 2020 11:38:28 AM — By now, most if not all Private equity firms have done some level of triage on their portfolios as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As expected, much of the focus has been on determining which companies are at most risk financially and operationally, and steps have been taken to shore up liquidity and protect supply chains among other things. However, scant attention has been spent on assessing the ability of holdings across the portfolio to restart commercial engines post crisis. This shortcoming jeopardizes the ability to take advantage of what may be transformative growth opportunities in my opinion. It also puts overall fund performance at risk in the long-term.

Key Questions for Private Equity to have Portfolio Companies Address as they Restart their Commercial Engines

Apr 16, 2020 12:00:56 PM — At Chief Outsiders, we use the phrase “Building sustainable engines for growth” as our goal is to build an asset that can drive revenue today and be monetized by investors tomorrow. Unfortunately, many companies’ engines have been shut down because of the global pandemic as customers have stopped buying due to choice, circumstances, or government decree. Restarting those engines is not as simple as just turning a switch back to “ON” – at least it shouldn’t be.

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Key Questions for Private Equity to have Portfolio Companies Address as they Restart their Commercial Engines

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