Highland Arms Enterprises is on the receiving end of a Main Post Partners investment as the multi-unit Precision Garage Door Service franchisee sets itself up for continued growth.

Franchise Equity Partners (FEP), a private investment firm that develops long-term partnerships with franchisees and franchisors, has acquired Precision Garage Door Service franchises in Orlando and Ocala, Fla.

New market additions follows significant investment made in franchisee Reliable Residential earlier this year to grow Precision Garage Door Service and other Neighborly brands

Leaving the annual Restaurant Finance & Development Conference in Las Vegas in November, it’s clear experts are cautiously optimistic about 2024’s dealmaking environment.

The report about Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s sale exploration comes the same week as a similar report about Chuck E. Cheese, signaling that restaurant M&A activity may be picking up.

Private investment firm welcomes new CFO Ari Herman, Senior Associate Grant Mueller, and Associate Alex Chang, and celebrates four promotions

We may have reached consumers’ thresholds on menu prices and operators will need to find alternative solutions to offset higher costs to gain back some traffic.

Founding Partner Mike Esposito Sees Big Potential in the Home Services Industry

Two former Goldman Sachs partners are betting they can outsmart any US recession by backing smaller business owners with the rights to sell some big-name brands.

Two former Goldman Sachs partners are betting they can outsmart any US recession by backing smaller business owners with the rights to sell some big-name brands.

Kevin Burke, Doug Hoerr, Matt Hughes, Malcolm Rhodes and Brandon Emmerich will lead the firm's engagement efforts in restaurants, industrial heavy equipment, beverage, agricultural heavy equipment and data science

Founding Partner Mike Esposito Sees Big Potential in the Home Services Industry. The investment firm Franchise Equity Partners (FEP) has acquired a franchisee owning three Precision Garage Door Service units.

Founding Partner Mike Esposito Sees Big Potential in the Home Services Industry.

Michael Esposito worked for Goldman Sachs for nearly three decades, the last 20 years as a partner for the global investment giant in New York City. But, as he tells it, it was not until he became a franchise operator and investor that he found another passion and began the next chapter of his professional career.

Michael Esposito worked for Goldman Sachs for nearly three decades, the last 20 years as a partner for the global investment giant in New York City. But, as he tells it, it was not until he became a franchise operator and investor that he found another passion and began the next chapter of his professional career. 

Specialist investor Franchise Equity Partners said it is backing Reliable Residential HoldCo, a Neighborly brand home-services franchise operator.

Franchise Equity Partners, a private investment firm on a mission to create long-term partnerships with quality franchisees and franchisors, today announced a new partnership with management of Reliable Residential HoldCo ("Reliable Residential"), the largest franchisee operator within Neighborly®, the world's largest home services company.

After 30-some years in finance, many of those advising multi-unit restaurant operators, Kevin Burke decided to retire, as we reported in the June issue of the Monitor. Burke retired as CEO of Trinity Capital, a restaurant industry investment banking firm he founded in 2000.

Parks Automotive Group, an automotive retail group with 21 franchises across the Southeast US, welcomed Franchise Equity Partners (FEP) as a minority partner following a capital contribution of approximately $55 million in connection with the group's recent purchase of the Lake Norman and Gastonia Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-RAM dealerships in North Carolina earlier this year.

Ag equipment dealers are finding ways to grow their businesses with opportunities for investment in the face of a rapidly changing landscape. Consolidation is a growing trend, not just in the ag equipment market, but in the general economy. Generational change is also a growing trend, particularly among producers and farm equipment dealers.