Tag: Private Equity
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The Wobbly Line: What Sanjeev Musuvathy Taught Me About Imperfection and Potential
June 26, 2025 It was September 2021. I was closing out week 8 of a 12-week stint in Boston Consulting Group (BCG) private equity ring-fence. I’d just wrapped a long stretch in San Francisco. At the time it just felt busy but normal, still in my first year at the firm, but this was close…
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Cracking the Code: How to Land a PE-Backed CFO Role (Especially If It’s Your First)
June 23, 2025 Private equity–backed companies are some of the most demanding, fast-paced environments for executives. And no role is more central, or more scrutinized, than the CFO. For operators trying to break into the private equity ecosystem as a first-time CFO, the path is narrow, the expectations are steep, and the interview process is…
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“You sold the debt to Oaktree?” | Lemonade LME Alternate Ending | Cousin Susie pulls a fast one
July 15, 2025 And That’s How My LME Failed and I Was Replaced as Lemonade Stand CEO for a Booth Grad Named Logan. Note: This is an alternative version of the original fictional story here on a Liability Management Exercise for a lemonade stand: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-life-gives-you-lemons-leverage-them-restructure-debt-alex-fabry-oh1ic Right before the Liability Management Exercise—the slick legal move that…
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When Life Gives You Lemons… Leverage Them (and Then Restructure the Debt)
A Beginner’s Guide to Liability Management Exercises July 10, 2025 Let’s say in January 2013, I decided to start a lemonade stand. Nothing fancy—just a side hustle after work. I set up shop in Kirkwood, Missouri. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 5 to 8 p.m. My neighbors came. Then they came back. The product? Incredible. I was…
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Could the Overton Miracle Happen in St. Louis?
June 17, 2025 Drive through Overton Park today in Lubbock, Texas, and you’ll see retail, restaurants, walkable housing, and students heading to class at Texas Tech University . It feels intentional, like a small urban village that just works. But rewind to the early 2000s, and Overton was one of the highest-crime areas in Lubbock.…
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Move over Boston and Chicago, St. Louis Is Rising Fast in Private Equity
Located in eastern Missouri, St. Louis is rapidly emerging as a vibrant hub for private equity, propelled by a wave of generational business transitions and a robust ecosystem of capital and innovation. With an estimated $100 trillion in small and medium-sized business assets poised to change hands as baby boomer owners retire, the region is…