The Founder's Dilemma: Timing the Market with $2T in Dry Power in Play

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Written By Mike Simpson

Selling founders are being told by private equity investors that they need to reduce expectations or to "get reasonable" about valuations in the M&A market if they want to sell their companies in the current environment. But do they really?? It's estimated that there's as much as $2T of committed but uninvested capital held by private equity investors, and the numbers of search funds, buyout groups, traditional private equity funds, and independent sponsors grows daily, so is it really selling founders who need to "get reasonable"?

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