Growth Capital
Partnering with our Clients
The McLean Group will selectively partner with our clients who are looking to grow inorganically by providing capital as well as strategic advice. We target investments in our core markets and team with clients who have outstanding management teams and with whom we have a long-term working relationship. Culture matters most to us, and we partner with strong leaders who care deeply about their employees and their customers’ mission.
Our investments are flexible in terms of both structure and time horizon.
Portfolio Companies
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Backlog is the bridge between a company’s historical financial performance and management’s forecast, but only the funded portion carries the certainty a buyer will actually underwrite. In this article, The McLean Group’s Financial Consulting team examines what backlog is and is not, how funded and unfunded commitments differ, and the four measures diligence teams test: coverage, burn, attrition, and concentration. For owners approaching a sale process, a backlog record that predates the process gives sellers control of the assumptions behind their forecast. […]