Insights
Insights.
Working notes on leadership hiring in private equity, written from mandates and from public record rather than from the industry's received wisdom.
Which deal types actually create a CFO vacancy
Not all transactions produce a leadership requirement, and the ones that look like they should often do not. A ranking of deal types by how reliably they create a finance gap, including three cases where the obvious inference was wrong.
The carve-out finance gap
What happens to a finance function when the parent's systems withdraw, why the transitional services period is the binding constraint, and what that means for the person you hire to run it.