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.
What We Believe
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A career in M&A is a continuous climb. Keep learning to keep climbing.
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Talent, process, and curiosity make the boat go faster.
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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
Deal Guide

Jacob Grosshandler
Deal Guide

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
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
Operations Lead & Content Creator
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.
