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Night of the living LLMs

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By Doug Lawson, Markto Market
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Imagine a scene from a zombie movie. There are six perpetrators and tens of thousands of victims being slaughtered. The weak yield immediately; the strong put up a bit of a fight, but finally succumb to the same dreadful fate. By the end, these same six super-zombies are all that remain – emboldened and now unassailable.
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Comment: You are what you eat

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By Doug Lawson
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Multiple arbitrage is a well-trodden path to PE success. Once a buyout fund has established a platform portfolio position, smaller businesses can be acquired for lower multiples, and docked onto the ‘mothership’. The earnings acquired for a more modest multiple, by dint of the target’s size, are then absorbed into the acquirer’s EBITDA and valued at the acquirer’s higher multiple. Financial alchemy in action.
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Column: Doug Lawson

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By Doug Lawson
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The strategy has become so ubiquitous that it seems there are few lower mid-market private equity firms yet to enter the sector. Just when we thought there was no room for another platform, however, three more appeared at the start of the summer – Bishop Fleming (Synova), AMS (Macquarie) and Burgess Hodgson (Abry Partners). The latter deal demonstrates that US capital is now eyeing-up the UK accountancy sector.
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