Associate, M&A Diligence & Risk

Run diligence end to end on live acquisitions, with support at first and less of it over time. You do the work and you help set the bar. As volume grows, you will be the person who knows where the process is slow, where it is thin, and how it should change.

Validate what the seller has represented. Start from their numbers, prove them against source data, and build an honest view of what the business will actually produce inside Equal Parts once it is ours.

Size every issue and bring a recommendation. Name what you found, quantify it, lay out the options, and say what you would do. We want tactical recommendations backed by specifics, fast enough to decide on. Decisions get made with the deal team and business leaders; your job is to make those decisions easy and well-informed, and over time to be the person whose call gets taken as the answer.

Partner with business unit leaders, the deal team, and other internal stakeholders to make sure we are getting full value from every acquisition. That means pushing on assumptions, including our own, and holding the line when it is uncomfortable.

Sit across from agency owners in the hardest conversations of the deal. Most are selling a business they built and identify with. Many are near the end of a career. This is not an institutional process and the owner does not want to be handled like it is one.

Ask hard questions and get real answers without putting the relationship at risk. Pressure applied badly costs Equal Parts good deals; pressure not applied at all costs us more.

Bring findings to owners directly, explain what they mean in plain terms, and work with them toward a path forward where one exists.

Know the difference between a business with messy books and a business with broken fundamentals. A $2M revenue agency does not keep records like a public company, and treating normal informality as a red flag kills good deals. Treating a structural problem as normal informality closes a deal we should not have done, and we find out twelve months later when the money is already spent.