Qatalyst Partners

also referred to as: qatalyst

7 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2024 by Frank Quattrone · said 7 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 1, 2024 · 7 mentions · from 6:04
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Mar 1, 2024 positive

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Qatalyst's Best M&A Year Was 2021 With Zero Face-to-Face Meetings

“The best year we've ever had in any of my businesses in M&A was 2021, where by the way, not a single one of us saw any of our colleagues face to face or a single client face to face. Was our single best year in history.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 17:13 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024

Disclosure

Quattrone: Qatalyst Barely Made Payroll in 2008 Until Christmas Deal Closed

“That first year, I didn't know if we could make payroll until our very first deal closed, like literally on December, 25th. And we got our first fee. So we were able to make payroll.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 53:22 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024 positive

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Quattrone: Tech M&A Advisory Firm Qatalyst Still Closes 80%-90% of Deals

“And so we're not having trouble getting 80% or 90% of our deals done, it's really only 10%”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 21:15 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024

Disclosure

Quattrone: 70-75% of Qatalyst M&A Deals Stem From Inbound Offers

“Maybe, I don't know, 70%, 75% of the time we react to a client who said, we've just gotten an offer from so-and-so. We think others may be interested. We'd like you to run a process.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 33:00 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024

Assertion Supported

Quattrone: Qatalyst Launched Two Days After Bear Stearns $2 Sale

“We started our firm in March of 2008 and it was two days after Bear Stearns was sold in a forced sale for two dollars a share to JP Morgan and Bear Stearns had been trading at a 150 bucks a share a year earlier.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 51:27 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024 positive

Disclosure

Quattrone: Qatalyst M&A business picked up over past six months

“We've had two consecutive down years, but for the last six months, our business started picking up.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 43:14 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024 positive

Insight

Quattrone: Tech companies must eventually IPO for M&A currency and public debt

“And so, yes, they wanted to wait longer, but at some point employees need liquidity. Yes, you can get it through privately held deals, but and also they need a currency for acquisitions. That's a lot of times what really drives the company to ultimately face t…”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 24:27 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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