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Clarion capital5/6/2023 Evidence of influence in the broader M&A industry is essential. To be considered, candidates must be women who are outstanding dealmakers both inside and outside of their firms. By identifying and featuring dozens of influential women, Mergers & Acquisitions nurtures the community of female leaders and provides role models for women who are at earlier stages of their careers. Efforts to recruit and retain women in the financial services industry have increased in recent years nevertheless, women still make up only about 14 percent of dealmakers in the middle market. Mergers & Acquisitions has opened up the nomination process for the fourth edition of The Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A. For more, read the full story: Due diligence meets big data: Two Six Capital, Oak Hill, Clarion among pioneers. Ninety-four percent of PE firms say they will use more predictive (applied) analytics within the next two years, and 83 percent are seeking operating partners with digital or technology expertise, according to Ernst & Young LLP’s Private Equity Global Divestment Study 2018. Private equity firms are eager to tap into the power of data science. For example, with help from Two Six, Clarion is able to see the cohort dynamics of businesses on a customer-by-customer basis, something that would have been “impossible even 10 years ago,” says Clarion founder Marc Utay. Private equity firms, such as Oak Hill and Clarion Capital Partners, a New York PE firm that invests in lower middle-market companies, are engaging Two Six to analyze customer datasets of potential targets and existing portfolio. At the same time, “more and more data is being created every day, as companies increasingly rely on technology to scale and improve their operations, as consumers shift to a digital lifestyle,” says Sajjad Jaffer, co-founder of Two Six Capital, a San Francisco firm that is pioneering the use of data science in due diligence and value creation. Data analytics is the low-hanging fruit to create value in every portfolio company we own.” There are several underlying technology trends at play to enable the rise of big data, including enormous increases in computing power, cloud computing architecture and inexpensive storage. Every time you click on the Internet, it’s creating data for somebody to analyze how to run their businesses better. Now, the data is readily available and exponentially created. Businesses were run on visceral intuitions. “Historically, the data wasn’t available. Taylor Crandall, a managing partner and a founding member of Oak Hill Capital Partners, which began investing in 1986 as the family office for Robert Bass, one of four brothers who founded Bass Brothers Enterprises, based in Fort Worth, Texas. "Data and artificial intelligence are necessary conditions for private equity today,” says J.
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