OUTLOOK & ANALYSIS

Non-Equity Partners: A Growing Trend

The right way and many wrong ways that firms handle non-equity partner strategies.

A new analysis of data in the current Rosenberg MAP Survey shows that the number of firms adopting non-equity partners is surging. Some 78% of firms over $20 million now have non-equity partners, as well as 61% of firms from $10 million to $20 million.

 

Percentage of firms with non-equity partners
(Rosenberg MAP Survey)

 


> $20M

$10–20M

$2–10M

All Firms

2012-2013 Report

78%

61%

39%

46%

2008-2009 Report

47%

33%

37%

In this report by Marc Rosenberg:

  1. A brief history and current status report on the trend.
  2. How the non-equity partner position is commonly used.
  3. How a non-equity partner becomes an equity partner.
  4. Why the non-equity partner concept works.
  5. How the non-equity partner concept can fail.
  6. The 11-point comparison: Equity vs. non-equity partners defined.