March, 2012
Catapult Growth Partners is pleased to announce that Linda Fleming is working with Kilpatrick on an initiative to support the business development efforts of it’s women partners. The program has been designed to support the growth of the firm and be utilized as a recruiting and retention tool to attract, develop and retain women lawyers.
January, 2012
Catapult Growth Partners has teamed up with Equiteq, a UK based strategic advisory and M&A firm to provide growth strategy and exit planning services to U.S. based professional service firms. The alliance offers firms, at whatever stage of their life-cycle, a unique combination that focuses entirely on equity growth and realization.
Doug Johnson, the Managing Partner at Catapult said: “Up until now, PSFs with strong growth ambitions have relied on firms like Catapult to help them accelerate performance, but what has been lacking in the market is the expertise to convert sales and profit growth into equity value growth, leading to premium valuations and transaction success at a future exit or liquidity event. Investment bankers do not cover that base because they are only interested at the deal stage. In this alliance with Equiteq we cover the full journey, enabling PSFs to grow towards a realistic equity realization target and timescale, while enjoying the cash flow from improved performance along the way.”
Paul Collins, the Managing partner at Equiteq added: “Building equity value in a people business is a specialist area, it does not work on the valuation of fixed assets or a long term order book, because these rarely exist in PSF firms. Also, whilst a track record of sales and profit growth is a necessity it is not sufficient, because equity value in a PSF firm is based on the future. When a buyer or investor does a deal, he is betting that sales and profit growth will continue, and the greater the probability, the greater the valuation multiple for the seller. At Equiteq we have built a proprietary model called the ‘8 Levers of Equity Value’, it finds the gaps and creates the plan for equity growth and premium value, it is being used by 100s of PSFs around the world and we are delighted to bring it to the U.S. through our alliance with Catapult
January, 2012
September, 2011
Catapult Growth Partners is pleased to announce the Laurie Herlihy has taken the position of Senior Marketing Director at EKS&H. Catapult assisted EKS&H in the evaluation of its marketing and business development goals, assessed the level and expertise of talent needed and placed Laurie in the role.
May, 2011
Roxanne Jensen has joined Catapult as Senior Partner to lead the legal industry strategy and talent practice. Roxanne has 20+ years of hands-on experience as a law firm manager and consultant. Roxanne practiced law with Morrison & Foerster LLP for nearly 20 years, and was the Managing Partner for MoFo’s Denver office for 3 years. Since leaving practice, Roxanne established and grew a successful Lateral Partner division for a national recruiting company, profitably adding partners and senior lawyers to more than 20 firms and companies over 4 years. Click on this link for Roxanne’s full bio.
With Roxanne’s addition, Catapult has bolstered and expanded its services to cover the full range of management consulting matters, including strategic market differentiation; growth planning; governance and compensation systems; succession planning; recruitment, integration and retention systems; and practice development. Catapult’s services now provides law firms with an integrated source for the best marketing and business development advice as well as the strategic planning advice to strengthen and grow law firm businesses.
February 2011
Linda Fleming has joined Catapult as Senior Partner to lead the legal industry strategy and talent practice. Linda has more than 19 years experience in the legal profession, both as a practicing attorney, a consultant and as a Chief Marketing and Business Development officer. Her expertise includes working with law firm management and partners to develop resources and processes that link marketing and business development initiatives and firm strategy with measurable results. Specific areas of focus are business development skills training and coaching, client satisfaction feedback programs and client teams. Click on this link for Linda’s full bio.