Insights
GestInvest shares selected perspectives on M&A, capital, private markets, ownership and investment situations.
Featured Insight
Across Europe, the €500k–€10M EBITDA segment represents thousands of quality businesses whose owners have no credible M&A advisory option. Most boutiques require larger deals; investment banks impose minimum transaction sizes that exclude the majority of mid-market companies. This is the gap GestInvest was built to address — with European execution and a global capital network.
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Capital
The choice between equity and debt is rarely just a cost-of-capital question. It is a decision about control, dilution, flexibility and how much risk the company — and its shareholders — can genuinely absorb. Companies that start from the instrument, rather than the objective, tend to raise capital that fits the market rather than the business.
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Hospitality & Real Estate
A hotel is a building, a business and a brand relationship all at once. Treating it as a pure real estate transaction — valuing the walls without the operation — is one of the most common ways value is lost, on both the sell-side and the buy-side.
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Special Situations
A full sale is often assumed to be the default answer to a liquidity need. It rarely is. A shareholder who wants liquidity while the business still has room to grow may be better served by a partial exit, a recapitalisation or a new minority investor — structures a full sale process is not designed to surface.
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Private Markets
A club deal is only as strong as the alignment between the investors in it. Ticket size and enthusiasm are not enough — mismatched time horizons or return expectations among co-investors are among the most common reasons a promising private opportunity becomes a difficult one.
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Private Markets
Search funds have become an established acquisition model in North America and are now growing across Europe. In Portugal and Spain, the fundamentals are compelling: a large base of founder-owned businesses approaching succession, limited institutional M&A interest in the sub-€15M enterprise value range, and an emerging ecosystem of trained operators seeking acquisition-led entrepreneurship.
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Family Capital
Most private portfolios are not managed — they are accumulated. Over time, capital spreads across banks, funds, real estate, and private investments without a unified framework. Each provider sees their slice. No one sees the whole. The result is a portfolio that looks acceptable at each individual level but carries hidden concentration risk, liquidity gaps and governance blind spots.
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Preparation, positioning and process for a successful sale.
M&A & Transactions →Structuring the right equity, debt or hybrid solution.
Capital & Financing →Capital, governance and continuity across generations.
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