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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Streamlining complex diligence synthesis
Synthesizing financial, legal, and operational reports for control buyouts creates bottlenecks. Your team loses days manually combining these distinct streams into a cohesive investment thesis.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave processes comprehensive data rooms instantly. Your professionals get a unified analysis linking operational insights to source documents, speeding up value creation planning.

Shortening your IC memo cycles
Drafting investment committee memos currently consumes 5-7 days of review cycles. This extended timeline creates significant pressure when findings are discovered late in the process.
How Brightwave Helps:

Generate comprehensive investment memos in hours. Brightwave allows your team to upload DD documents and receive cited, defensible analysis immediately, preventing last-minute scrambles.

Scaling your buy-and-build screening
Reviewing 50-200 CIMs annually limits the depth available for assessing add-on acquisitions. Your analysts are often buried in data rather than evaluating strategic fit for portfolio transformation.
How Brightwave Helps:

Process 15 deals in the time it usually takes to review one. Brightwave empowers your team to identify portfolio expansion opportunities faster without adding headcount.

Ensuring data-driven investment precision
Manual review increases the risk of missing critical details until just before deadlines. This uncertainty can undermine the confidence required for complex upper-mid-market transactions.
How Brightwave Helps:

Eliminate blind spots with sentence-level citations. Brightwave ensures every insight in your reports is directly traceable to the source, solidifying your investment conviction.

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Brightwave Deal Impact

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Critical Impact (Significant Time Savings)
High Impact (Moderate Time Savings)
01
Phase duration:
Weeks 1-4
Sourcing & Initial Review
CRITICAL IMPACT
CIM Analysis
Associates, Analysts
HIGH IMPACT
Market Research
Associates, Senior Associates
HIGH IMPACT
Management Presentation Prep
Associates, VPs
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Phase duration:
Weeks 7-14
Due Diligence
CRITICAL IMPACT
Data Room Review
Associates, Analysts
CRITICAL IMPACT
Customer/Vendor Contract Analysis
Associates, Legal Team
HIGH IMPACT
Reference Call Summaries
Associates, Senior Associates
HIGH IMPACT
DD Report Synthesis
VPs, Senior Associates
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Phase duration:
Weeks 10-16
Financing & Documentation
HIGH IMPACT
Lender Presentation Materials
Associates, VPs
CRITICAL IMPACT
IC Memo Drafting
VPs, Principal
CRITICAL IMPACT
Legal Document Review
VPs, Legal Team
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Phase duration:
Days 1-100
Post-Closing
HIGH IMPACT
Post-Closing Integration Planning
Operating Partners, VP
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Phase duration:
Years 1-5
Ongoing Ownership
HIGH IMPACT
Board Materials Review
Partners, Portfolio Item

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