Contributors
Meet our Senior Team in Technology, Media & Telecom
I am inspired by working with entrepreneurs and innovators who feel passionately about what they are creating.
William Bowmer
Managing Director & Co-Head of Technology, U.S.
San Francisco
I deliver a hands-on approach to provide strategic advice to my clients throughout the transaction and beyond.
Chris Brooks
Managing Director & Co-Head of Technology, Europe
London
I build trust through authenticity and value-driven advice for my clients.
Kunal Kalra
Managing Director
London
Emerging IoT Innovations Attract Corporate and Private Equity Investment
The Internet of Things (IoT) has experienced steady uptake in recent years, offering businesses a range of cost-saving benefits including improved productivity, enhanced situational awareness and a reduction in human… Read More
Safeguarding the Smart Grid: Why Partnering Makes Sense for Utilities & Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Companies
The threat of cyberattacks has increased across the globe, with organizations seeing a 67% increase in the last five years. While protecting against cyberattacks is top-of-mind for nearly every business,… Read More
Engineering & Consulting Services Sector Adjusts Amidst COVID-19 Uncertainty
While construction has been deemed an essential service across most of the country since the start of the pandemic, there nonetheless has been an impact for Engineering & Consulting (E&C)… Read More
Affiliate Party Transaction Fairness Opinions During Down-Round Financing
The economic ripple effects of COVID-19 are already being felt in private equity (PE) portfolios around the world. While some portfolio companies are expected to successfully weather this challenging time… Read More
What is the New Normal? A Closer Look at Automotive Demand & Supply Chain Impact
In April, U.S. light vehicle sales fell almost 50% year on year and resulted in a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) of just 8.6m – significantly lower than any other… Read More
E-commerce and the Compression of Retail Disruption
In recent years, the consumer shopping experience was already experiencing rapid upheaval with e-commerce growing from 6.5% of total retail sales in 2014 to 11.0% in 2019(1); COVID-19 only accelerated… Read More
Awakening of the Healthcare Consumer
Since the beginning of the Information Age, there has been discussion around the importance, emergence, and empowerment of the health care consumer. This has been enabled and driven by rapid… Read More
Seven Software M&A Takeaways for Life After COVID-19
As technology investors consider where to be active amidst the COVID-19 crisis and the months that will hopefully follow later this year, we are increasingly being asked what “the market”… Read More
Industrial Technology Leaders are Likely Buyers for First Wave of Post-Pandemic Industrials M&A
The COVID-19 pandemic has already brought significant changes to the deal-making landscape. While regular-way deal activity has ground to a halt, strategic Industrial Technology buyers largely remain “open” and accessible.… Read More
Consolidation in Automotive Services Set to Accelerate with COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the way people behave and how businesses operate. As part of those changes, society has also altered the way it moves. More specifically, in… Read More
Pet Sector M&A Insights and the Implications of COVID-19
In times of market volatility and economic downturns, investors gravitate to certain recession-resistant sectors. Generally, the pet care category grew through the Great Recession when compared to the broader economy,… Read More
Restaurants – Preparing for the Future
While restaurants remain hyper focused on managing near-term liquidity and current operations, owners and managers are starting to shift their thinking toward what business will look like in the new… Read More
Better Together… or Apart? Solutions for Struggling Joint Ventures and Minority Stakes in Portfolio Companies
As the world battles COVID-19 and businesses experience cash constraints, underperforming joint ventures and minority stakes will come under the microscope. Following evaluation, there are usually two basic options: 1. Exit… Read More
Human Capital Management Services Sector Update Amidst COVID-19
As Q1 2020 began, few could anticipate a disruption to the global economy of the breadth, depth and pace of that which we now face. Human capital services touch every… Read More
Outlook of COVID-19 Impact on Global Medtech M&A / Business Development
The Current Environment – Commentary COVID-19 is delivering a true one-two punch to the economy. The first punch stunned global markets with a complete shut-down of activity, but coming out… Read More
Ophthalmology Sector Thesis Strongly Intact with Demand Build-up Amidst COVID-19
Across the world, individuals are prioritizing human health and safety amidst the coronavirus pandemic, but hope is starting to dawn as countries, like Germany and the Czech Republic, begin easing… Read More
Pharmacies: The Right Prescription for Investors
Prior to the effects of COVID-19, UK community pharmacies were already undergoing significant change as a range of factors converge to transform the role of pharmacists within the primary care… Read More
In Manufacturing and Distribution, “Recession Resilience” Is No Longer Enough
For years, potential buyers asked management teams how their companies weathered in the Great Recession. The present pandemic will be the next test of company resilience and value. Until recently,… Read More
The Role of “Physical Space”: New Constraints for Retail in a Post-COVID World
In an earlier COVID-19 article, we addressed how COVID-19 might impact consumer spending habits. In addition to shifts in spending behaviors, the very location where said spending occurs will be… Read More
COVID-19 Puts Spotlight on Organizational Investments in Human Capital Technology
Over the last decade, organizations around the world have debated the strategic merits and pace of investments in technology focused on the challenge of attracting, engaging and retaining talent. During… Read More
Trends in Digital Fitness
The Fitness Industry is Being Disrupted by New Business Models, Digital Delivery and Subscription Commerce The fitness industry has already been experiencing the massive growth of digital fitness, out-of-studio experiences… Read More
Interim/Post-COVID-19 Sector Outlook: Services & Products for Homebound Patients
Click the home healthcare sectors below to view key takeaways on the effects of COVID-19. Medical and Personal Services Skilled Home Healthcare Near term: REASONABLY STABLE / POSITIVE Long term:… Read More
M&A Market in Germany: Expected Revival after Coronavirus
Transactions will increasingly be characterized by distressed sales and defensive, less strategically motivated deals The corona crisis has left the global economy and M&A business in an unprecedented state of… Read More
Rethinking the Global Chemicals Supply Chain
The chemicals supply chain has always been global, because certain raw materials can only be sourced from, made in or distributed to certain areas of the world. Chemical manufacturers’ supply… Read More
Powering Utility & Infrastructure Services M&A Activity in a COVID-19 Landscape
Last month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with other federal agencies, state and local governments and the private sector, created an advisory list of “Essential Critical Infrastructure… Read More