Why Focus Financial is risking it all -- including the advantages of privacy and private stock -- for a successful IPO
RIAs are perhaps being held in place by just those two elements, but with $1-billion valuation on the line, the liquidity event is taking on a life of its own
Jeff Spears
I hope this IPO happens and it starts the next stage of growth in the breakaway market. This stage should be larger and more enduring than the first stage. All of the other firms that support breakaways are rooting for you Rudy! The advisors who haven;t broken away yet should be rooting for you too.
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Tiburon Strategic Advisors
Consulting Firm
Top Executive: Charles Roame
Focus Financial Partners, LLC
Consolidator/Roll-up Firm
Top Executive: Rudy Adolf
