Transaction Readiness: Strategic Preparation for M&A Success
Presented By: Brightstar Capital Partners / Holland & Knight, LLP
Preparing a business for a successful transaction requires strategic planning and thorough preparation. Owners and C-suite executives will learn how to position their companies for a sell-side process, whether pursuing growth capital, private equity investment, or a full exit. Two CEOs who recently navigated major transactions share firsthand insights on enhancing value, mitigating risks, and ensuring a seamless process. Explore key steps to make a company “sale-ready” and uncover practical strategies for achieving optimal outcomes in today’s competitive market.
Moderator:
Partner
Holland & Knight LLP
Tyson Bickley counsels private equity firms and strategic partners in healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, business services, technology and other industries in a wide range of mergers, acquisitions, strategic corporate transactions and alternative business arrangements. Mr. Bickley's transactional experience includes the representation of publicly traded companies as well as private equity firms and their portfolio companies in complex mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and dispositions. Mr. Bickley also assists a variety of investors in growth equity and alternative investments in new and emerging companies.
Previously, Mr. Bickley served as Chief Development Officer at Contessa Health where he led successful development efforts for joint ventures with health systems and health plans to participate in bundled payment programs for home hospitalization and other patient-centered home-based care models.
Principal
Brightstar Capital Partners
Brian Cronin is a Principal at Brightstar. Brian helps lead Brightstar’s business development strategy.
Prior to joining Brightstar, Brian was a managing member of BPC Capital and led direct investments by family offices in operating companies. He was primarily responsible for business development and execution of value-creation plans for portfolio companies, including operational improvements and revenue growth strategies.
Previously, Brian co-founded Prosperity Construction, LLC, a civil site work construction company, in 2009. In 2018, Brian merged the company into a premier general construction company headquartered in the Southeast, active in 13 states.
Brian began his career as an analyst at SPB Partners in Las Vegas, a multi-family office, where he assisted with growth capital, restructuring, and management reorganization.
Brian has been a Young Presidents Organization (YPO) member since 2020, he currently serves as Education Chair for the Tennessee Southern Seven Chapter. Brian received his MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and his B.A. in History from Brigham Young University. He won a basketball gold medal in the 2009 Summer Deaflympics in Taiwan as a member of Team USA.
Panelists:
CEO
Ntracts
With over 20 years of healthcare IT experience, David Paschall is a seasoned HCIT executive, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist with a passion for building teams and developing driven people. He has a diverse executive background serving in almost every facet of the C-suite in major healthcare SaaS companies at multiple stages of growth.
David currently serves as the CEO of Ntracts and is a founding partner of Transparency Health, a Chattanooga based healthcare technology investment fund.
David has been a guest speaker at events including Consero Healthcare General Counsel Forum.
Co-Founder & Principal
Rooted Investments
Nathan Wells co-founded Path Company in 2017, as well as Fondren Construction and Trace Services in 2023. He also established Rooted Investments, a holding company providing management services to these ventures. Before starting and operating businesses Nathan served eight years as chief of staff to Mississippi's speaker of the house. Nathan serves on multiple commissions and boards in his hometown of Jackson, MS where he and his wife Amanda live with their three children.