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Accelerating Digital Product Development for Private Equity Portfolio Management

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For private equity firms focused on value creation, enhancing portfolio companies through digital transformation is a key strategy. When Prairie Capital sought to significantly expand the reach and offerings of…

Board Search Places Two Senior Executives in Staffing Firm

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An Apex Leaders’ client owned an established staffing company platform and had recently added a smaller Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) company. Given the recent add on, the company wanted to…

Private Equity CEO Placement Spurs 400% Company Growth

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Apex Leaders’ client wanted to evaluate a regionally-known court reporting company with strong growth potential. Initially, the client sought to speak with advisors who could diligence the opportunity and, potentially,…

Sector Thesis Case Study: Cloud IT Services

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Our client’s Business Services team reached out to Apex Leaders for help with their sector thesis around cloud-based IT services. Their interest in this industry was due to secular tailwinds…

Apex Supports Glassware Manufacturing Turnaround Deal

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Our private equity client invests in distressed asset opportunities and wanted to investigate the landscape of publicly-traded and privately-held glassware manufacturing companies. With a surge in the number of breweries,…

Why Top Private Equity Consulting Firms Are Key to Deal Success

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To execute a successful distressed asset turnaround investment strategy, it’s crucial to establish partnerships with executives and operators both during the private equity due diligence process and after closing. Our…

Finding the Right Fit with Board Member Search Firms

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L2 Capital, a family office with decades of experience investing in and growing lower middle market companies, needed to find a board member for their recently acquired portfolio company, Ecotone,…

How an Expertise Consultant Helped Solve Supply Chain Issues

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Apex’s client, a lower middle market private equity (PE) firm, approached Apex for help with a microchip shortage affecting its portfolio company, a leader in quick-turn PCBA and on-demand manufacturing….

PE Portfolio Management: Flexible PVC Market Expansion

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For our private equity client, we provided industry expertise that advanced the plateauing sales performance within their PE portfolio management strategy for the flexible PVC division In an industrial industry…

Assessing Underperformance in Saw Mills Portfolio

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In spite of a growing housing market, a private equity-owned saw manufacturer in the U.S. Pacific Northwest was reporting low sales performance. Executive management attributed the cause to dwindling production…