The Riverside Company

How can managers best assess a company’s culture and communicate a vision for success?

When you do an add-on and discover dozens of IT applications that need to be integrated…

How to plan for and communicate around an add-on.

How Stewart Kohl’s career in private equity was driven by an ability to connect with people.

What drove private equity deal activity in 2016 and what are the top predictions for deals in 2017?

The Co-CEO of Riverside explains the appeal of the lower middle market.

Three private equity human capital experts discuss the value that can be created by making tough human capital moves.

Human capital experts discuss the delicate issue of the founder’s role post-close.

Three private equity CFOs discuss gray areas in compliance pertaining to LP co-investment and portfolio company valuation.

Three CFOs discuss the challenge of not knowing exactly what can be posted on a private equity firm’s website.

How much disclosure do PE firms need to offer surrounding fees, expenses and operating partners?

Should investors use public benchmarks like the S&P 500 to gauge the performance of their private equity program?

How real is VC’s current outperformance, and how long will it last?

Are the synthetic track records of new firms legitimate? Are they worth the due diligence effort by investors?

Stories about adding operating value in underperforming portfolio companies.

All about the crucial relationship between portfolio company management and the operations team at the sponsoring private equity firm.

Execs from Riverside, MidOcean, and RSM compare their approaches to deploying operating talent in their investment processes.

Investor relations experts from Riverside and Vestar discuss how LP interest in co-investment deals has increased, and how they are structured.

Allocation of co-investment opportunities involves transparency and building relationships with LPs, say IR experts from Vestar Capital Partners and The Riverside Company.

Video of The Riverside Company’s Pam Hendrickson on the implications of the Affordable Care Act.

Senior operating executives from Partners Group, Riverside and Argosy detail the operating value-add platforms at their respective firms.

The secret sauce for adding operating value is ketchup.

What is the right structure for giving operating partners a ‘seat at the table’ at a private equity firm?

How Riverside partnered with promotional products marketing franchise AIA to grow.

Private equity can indeed create jobs – just ask Ohio state officials, who worked with Insurance Claim Management (ICM) and the private equity firm that owns ICM, The Riverside Company, to open a new Springfield facility that now employs 160 people.

Meet Robyn Walsh, the CEO of Australian healthcare services company MLCOA and Simon Feiglin, a partner at The Riverside Company. When Riverside acquired MLCOA in 2010, it tapped Walsh to “build the engine to support growth” of the company.

Dealmakers are rarely this candid in discussing not only their proprietary methods for adding operating value, but also the lessons they’ve learned from botched investments.

In “Candid Advice for Sellers,” three veterans of the private equity middle market offer valuable guidance for anyone considering doing a deal with private equity firm.

Three experts share insights about the ways private equity firms are transforming themselves in order to meet the challenges of a more exacting middle-market investment opportunity.

As the private equity investment opportunity has changed, investors have sought out general partners who have track records of truly adding value to their portfolio companies. With Susan Long McAndrews of Pantheon Ventures, Robert Long of Conversus Asset Management, Bela Szigethy of The Riverside Company and John Vester of EY.

Meet Dave Tiley and Allen Nance, two executives joined in an ambitious effort to build a company called WhatCounts into a dominant provider of email marketing services. In a joint interview with Privcap, Tiley and Nance share candid details on how their partnership works.

Hear the story of how Diatron CEO Jim Schepp worked with Riverside Operating Consultant Howard Barnes to take the company from a commoditized set of revenue streams to a full-service, internationally competitive business.

In this video, executives at The Riverside Company and Connor Sport Court tell the story of how they have worked together to increase the fortunes of a company in the face of corporate and international challenges.

Pam Hendrickson of The Riverside Company explains the broad—and underappreciated—impact of the Affordable Care Act on middle-market private equity.

This is the story of how NAVEX, led by CEO Mark Reed and President & Chief Strategy Officer Shanti Atkins joined with Riverside Operating Partner Jeff Goodman to pursue a joint vision of leadership in the ethics services and training space.

Karsten Langer of The Riverside Company discusses why Europe is not “one inflated Greece” and why he remains optimistic about being a European GP.

An executive summary of the Privcap thought-leadership series on the right ways to approach business integration.

Privcap Game Change: Consumer & Retail 2016, a debut event, brought together private equity investors, institutional investors, and executives from the consumer sector, all of whom are hyper-aware of one thing—massive technological disruption.

Insights from portfolio operations professionals on successfully managing private equity investments.

A discussion between two experts on where to invest in healthcare today

An executive summary of the Privcap thought-leadership series on human capital in portfolio companies.

This briefing is a compilation of the thought leadership on display at the Healthcare Game Change event.

Three mid-market CFOs discuss partnering with the ACG to compile best practices in order to stay in step with SEC regulations.

A roundup of thought leadership about private equity portfolio operations

Expert insights into how private equity and venture capital professionals, and investors, should assess their investments’ performance.

An executive summary of the Privcap series exploring how GPs create portfolio company value.

“The Co-investment Era” is the essential sourcebook for intelligence and best practices regarding LP co-investment.

RSM office managing partner and national private equity leader Don Lipari interviews The Riverside Company Co-CEO Stewart Kohl.