Southlake, TX – – March 17, 2009 – Prophet Equity LLC, a private equity firm, and its affiliates, that makes control investments in strategically strong, asset-intensive, underperforming companies in the lower and middle market, formally announced it substantially increased its institutional pool of capital for making control equity investments.
Ross Gatlin, CEO and Managing Partner commented, “With a billion dollars of purchasing power for control equity investments in target companies, Prophet Equity is well equipped to support dramatic value creation in companies not only with the necessary equity capital, but also with our demonstrated strategic and operational know-how. Our professionals and our methods for dramatically improving the performance of strategically strong, but underperforming firms in lower and middle markets are second to none.”
The recent additions to the Prophet Equity team provides additional bandwidth for deal making, while continuing to support portfolio company management teams in the implementation of Value Creation Plans post-close.
Michael Hirschfeld, Financial Analyst, will continue the work he began in his successful internship with Prophet during the summer of 2008, supporting both financial and strategic modeling around target acquisitions. Barb Levis, a new Research Analyst at Prophet, leverages over a decade of consulting know-how with both Accenture and Deloitte to help conduct due diligence and research activities.
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