Developing M&A Talent for Your Firm’s Success

Private Equity Primer is a professional development and training company cultivating high-output performance for merger and acquisition (M&A) professionals and deal teams.

Our Deal Guides are current and former private equity investors, investment bankers, lenders, financial due diligence (FDD) professionals, diligence advisers, management consultants, and M&A attorneys. We distill our decades of transaction experience into the actionable knowledge needed for M&A organizations to continually upskill their deal teams and grow.

Reach out to find out how Private Equity Primer can support your firm’s professional development goals. 

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What We Believe  

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A career in M&A is a continuous climb. Keep learning to keep climbing.

2

Talent, process, and curiosity make the boat go faster.

3

The training room gives a home to mistakes that live far away from the client’s eyes.

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Simplicity demystifies the complex, the confusing, and what jargon can obscure.

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Effective communication combined with technical knowledge cultivates high-output performance.

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The best teammates are consistent in their performance and proactive in their planning. 

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Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are underrated.

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Great firms have great development programs.

Meet the Private Equity Primer Team

Richard Grosshandler

Richard Grosshandler

Deal Guide

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  • Over 20 years of deal experience 
  • Work History: Investment Banking, Private Equity, and Commercial & Financial Diligence
  • Fun Fact: Completed Triple Murph (three consecutive Murphs: first one weighted, second two unweighted) 
  • Loves: Michael Lewis books & decision frameworks  
Bob Church

Bob Church

Deal Guide

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  • Nearly two decades of deal experience 
  • Work History: Forensic Accounting, Private Equity, Corporate Development, FP&A, and Commercial & Financial Diligence 
  • Fun Fact: Record back squat 500 pounds 
  • Loves: Coffee & Power BI hacks  
Molly Twigg

Molly Twigg

Deal Guide

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  • Over a decade of deal experience 
  • Work History: Financial Due Diligence and Audit 
  • Fun Fact: Hiked six of Colorado’s 14ers (peaks above 14,000 feet)
  • Loves: Soft serve ice cream toppings and NWC adjustments
Jacob Grosshandler

Jacob Grosshandler

Deal Guide

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  • Over a decade of deal experience 
  • Work History: Equity Research, Policy Fellow, Commercial & Financial Diligence, and Executive Coach 
  • Fun Fact: Once was given the nickname American Cowboy when traveling through Japan 
  • Loves: Wood fired pizza & competitive analysis 
Jessica Brecker

Jessica Brecker

Deal Guide

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  • Over a decade of financial advisory experience
  • Work History: Investment Banking, Private Equity, and Corporate Finance 
  • Fun Fact: Started a gift box company with her sister
  • Loves: Tennis and well formatted spreadsheets
Christine O’Connor

Christine O’Connor

Deal Guide

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  • Nearly two decades of deal experience
  • Work History: Transaction Attorney,  Former Partner at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP
  • Fun Fact: Favorite mode is Dance Mode
  • Loves: Meteors & closing checklists
Will Henry

Will Henry

Deal Guide

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  • Nearly two decades of deal experience
  • Work History: Transaction Attorney, Partner at Thompson Hine LLP
  • Fun Fact: Running first half marathon
  • Loves: Armchair psychology & documenting NWC mechanisms
Mary Cutright

Mary Cutright

Operations Lead & Content Creator

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  • Course designer, content creator, and operations specialist 
  • Work Experience: Commercial & Financial Diligence, Physician Practice Management, MFA in Creative Writing, and MS in Library Science 
  • Fun Fact: Owns four first edition Faulkner novels 
  • Loves: Cats & project management software 

Deal Guide Bench Strength

In addition to our full-time Deal Guides, Private Equity Primer employs a bench of part-time trainers who lend their real-time deal expertise to cultivate high-output performance training for our clients. They keep their M&A skills sharp working in private equity, Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) / FDD advisory, law firms, corporate development, FP&A, investment banking, and similar roles.

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