Staying Independent: Why Your Best Clients Hope You Turn Down Private Equity

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The conversations you should be having right now.

By Hitendra Patil

There is something that consistently gets missed in the private equity conversation, and I have watched it get missed from both sides: the people inside firms that took PE money, and the independent owners watching from outside.

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Independent firms hold real structural advantages that the PE model works against by design. For the right clients, those advantages are not a secondary consideration. They are the core of the relationship.