{"id":280,"date":"2017-10-09T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/?p=280"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:47:42","slug":"what-acquirers-look-for-in-a-consulting-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/2017\/10\/09\/what-acquirers-look-for-in-a-consulting-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"What acquirers look for in a Consulting Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-282\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidbailey.consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mergers-and-Acquisitions-small-image-from-shutterstock_280498670.jpeg?resize=300%2C198\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidbailey.consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mergers-and-Acquisitions-small-image-from-shutterstock_280498670.jpeg?resize=300%2C198 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidbailey.consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mergers-and-Acquisitions-small-image-from-shutterstock_280498670.jpeg?w=576 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was interviewed recently, as part of a podcast series, on the topic of what acquirers look for when searching for consulting firms to acquire.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on my experience from both sides, helping firms to acquire and &#8220;packaging up&#8221; firms to get them ready for acquisition, there was more than enough content to fill a 25 minute session.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy listening to the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimbleapps.com\/podcasts\/what-acquirers-look-for-in-a-consulting-firm\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and feel free to provide comment or contact me to debate the content and\/or share your own experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interviewed recently, as part of a podcast series, on the topic of what acquirers look for when searching for consulting firms to acquire. Drawing on my experience from both sides, helping firms to acquire and &#8220;packaging up&#8221; firms to get them ready for acquisition, there was more than enough content to fill a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/2017\/10\/09\/what-acquirers-look-for-in-a-consulting-firm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What acquirers look for in a Consulting Firm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-comment","category-ma","category-strategy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8uSW5-4w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidbailey.consulting\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}