Roll-Up Strategies?

by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School

3 years ago

Anyone with roll-up strategy experience open to talking?

I'm a first-year MBA interested in both traditional search and roll-ups (especially healthcare, e-commerce and franchises). However, I don't come from a finance/private equity background. What do you think is the failure rate of roll=up vs traditional? What skills are required to have credibility with roll-up LPs? What does it take to truly succeed?

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searcher from London Business School

From my discussions with PE firms that do roll-ups, they deploy all the equity raised and they refi/leverage the combined balance sheet after

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searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Nathaniel, curious based on your research what you uncovered here about pursuing a roll up strategy out of the gate vs. traditional search?

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