Hey Guys,
I have an interview for Woodbridge International in New Haven CT. I did some research and they look really interesting. Here is their website:
Has anyone heard of them or knew someone who has worked for them? Is this a good place to start if I am targeting M&A out of college?
Thanks
Very much the smaller end on dealsize, which is not a bad thing in-and-of itself if you are interested in that....
Would say go for it for sure, but keep looking elsewhere. I mentioned the firm a few months back to a guy who was in PE in Chicago and he said the partners at the firm liked to look at a lot of their deals.
No matter what, congrats on the interview. So hard to get that far. You can always use that to leverage other opportunities as well, or at least learn something about the interview process.
Did you intern at Woodbridge? Or do you mean you worked somewhere else and heard about them?
I was an intern elsewhere and we looked at a few deals.
I currently work for Woodbridge International, and I wanted to reach out to clarify some things.
Woodbridge International is a global, world-class middle-market M&A firm with 28 offices around the world. We work with companies ranging in $5-100+ million in revenue and companies over $1 million in EBITDA. Our average deal size is around $18 million.
We are FINRA registered under wholly-owned a subsidiary of Woodbridge International called WG Securities.
On our staff, we have a full-time webmaster, who manages each of our 18 websites. We have dedicated a lot of time and effort into our website to make it a great resource for those who are interested in selling their company.
If anyone has questions or would like more detail about our process or what make Woodbridge International such a successful firm, please call us. We would love to tell you why we love our company!
thanks for the info guys
This firm is very aggressive in signing up new clients. They make no real effort to discern if the prospective client is adequately prepared to go to market. They're not interested in grooming prospective clients for a future launch... just sign them up and hope for the best. Accordingly, many sellers are overwhelmed with the process and are ultimately disappointed when the results fall far below what the sales reps were promising. However, a good quality company with sales and earnings growth, competent management, and in a favored industry (for investors) could potentially benefit from this firm's robust marketing process.
At Woodbridge International, we believe businesses have life cycles of ups and downs. Some are in need of more improvement than others and some are fully polished up. We diligently work to sign up clients that are realistic about their value and have the motivation to sell the business. That motivation is centered around some type of solution that the client is looking to solve. That solution may mean that the company needs a buyer to polish it up because the owner wants out and is tired of running the company while others are running like a Swiss watch, running in perfect synchronization. It would be nice to have the luxury of only selling well-oiled perfectly running companies, however, that is not the reality of life.
This company has experienced a mass exodus of their best talent in the past few years (both resignations and a lot of terminations). They appear to be in disarray.
Interned in a MM buy-side role where I had a decent amount of interaction with them. Neither myself or the Associates I worked under were very impressed ... they essentially take on a massive amount of clients and do the bare minimum to get the deals closed. They seemed to have little to no understanding of individual clients’ businesses and were pretty unprofessional.
Worked in LMM PE for two summers. Never interacted with them but their sale processes seem to involve mass emails to anyone on their email list.
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