M&A advisor describes PE roll-up consolidations in the trades

An M&A consultant (John Bartlett, Brentwood Growth) describes the dominant buyer group for trades businesses as PE firms, independent sponsors and family offices running roll-up consolidations: buying 10-20 companies in a geographic area over 3-5 years into a holding company they later sell.

“There are financial buyers, which are private equity firms and independent sponsors and family offices that are doing what are called roll up consolidations where they're buying multiple companies within a similar geographic area”

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