Mark Osborne discusses what private equity buyers actually look for in upper-middle market companies. PE firms target specific operational improvements and supplier relationships that most business owners overlook when preparing to sell.
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That's fantastic. And so, you know, you, you live in a really interesting space that I'm sure a lot of people are always trying to get at some of that insight between your ears, because, you know, there's so much activity with private equity moving into this, you know, upper middle market of making investments in companies, rolling up companies. And a lot of folks are, you know, always trying to sort of guess what, what is private equity really looking for? And what would make my business attractive to them? Or what would make me as a sort supplier to, you know, private equity as a good partner. Tell us a little bit about what you see there, both in terms of trends that you're seeing in the space as well as just, you know, some maybe overlooked aspects of, of that marketplace.