Focus Financial CFO admits firm needs to 'de-lever' and assures analyst $14-million splurge for posh new offices won't soon repeat
Jim Shanahan say his New York-based roll-up will attempt to get to 3.5 debt-to-equity ratio and critics wonder whether that is signal of weak pipeline of deals
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Focus Financial Partners, LLC
Consolidator/Roll-up Firm
Top Executive: Rudy Adolf