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What RIA principals in the Focus Financial family have to say about a rumored deal for the consolidator

Buckingham/BAM, The Colony Group and LLBH leaders see it as business as usual that Summit would want to roll over ownership of its stake

Author Lisa Shidler July 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM
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Adam Birenbaum: We all have our own individual management agreements, which is important to understand.

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Stephen Winks

Stephen Winks

July 17, 2012 — 6:31 PM

Focus’s stregnth is its weakness—every advisor is a free agent and very sucessful. The weakness is it is not possible to create scale, advance innovation, enhance the advisors value proposition, drive down cost, or create a brand as everyone is an independent free agent—thus, its achilles heel. Its impressive critical mass achieved accrues little value added for its acquired firms as an operating entity.

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Chris

Chris

July 19, 2012 — 5:14 PM

This is simple, word is that Focus owns an estimated $22M in EBITDA and they have $175 in debt and $80 million in preferred stock which leaves very little room for equity shareholders. That is a heavy cap table. I agree with SCM’s view, but regardless of them owning a non-controlling interest in an amalgamation of disparate firms their cap table is a joke. In an environment where The Mutual Fund Store and Edelman traded a very rich multiples and Summit has been shopping their piece hard for over a year suggests their is no bid.

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