Developing M&A Talent for Your Firm’s Success
Private Equity Primer (“PE Primer”) is a professional development and training company cultivating high-output performance for M&A professionals and deal teams.
Our Deal Guides are current and former private equity investors, investment bankers, lenders, 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 PE 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
Tim Burress
Director of Learning & Development
Mary Cutright
Operations Lead & Content Creator
Deal Guide Bench Strength
In addition to our full-time Deal Guides, PE 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, TAS / FDD advisory, law firms, corporate development, FP&A, investment banking, and similar roles.
