Peter Taft

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  Peter Taft Partner Private Equity

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  Peter Taft
  
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  Peter, based in Cleveland, OH, joined Morgenthaler in 1987. As Partner, he focuses on management buyouts, build-ups and recapitalizations of high-value manufacturing and business services. He has been actively involved in many of the firm's management buyout and leveraged build-up investments - Cambridge International, Gatan International (acquired by Roper Industries), GED Integrated Solutions, American Paper Group, Software House (acquired by Sensormatic Electronics), Magma Copper, Dispatch Communications (acquired by NEXTEL Communications), and ProAir Services (acquired by Service Experts). He currently serves on the Board of Affinity Specialty Apparel, Avtron, Comm-Works and Formed Fiber Technologies.
  
  From 1982 to 1985 he worked in the investment banking group of McDonald & Company Securities (now KeyBanc Capital Markets), where he concentrated on mergers and acquisitions. Peter received a BA from Amherst College in 1982 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1987.
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  Peter Taft

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  Peter Taft

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  "We are excited about partnering with Michael DiMino to build a unique company that will aggregate the top brands in the uniform and specialty apparel market and serve the needs of its diverse and discerning customers," said Peter Taft, a partner at Morgenthaler Partners and ASA board member.

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  "We are excited about partnering with Michael DiMino to build a unique company that will aggregate the top brands in the uniform and specialty apparel market and serve the needs of its diverse and discerning customers," said Peter Taft, a partner at Morgenthaler Partners.
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  "This market, estimated at approximately $5 billion, is not overly cyclical and can better withstand a recession than most," Mr. Taft said.

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  The strong stock market and economy of the last several years had pushed corporate valuations to lofty levels and thus raised the prices that private equity investors had to pay to do deals, said Peter Taft, a Cleveland-based partner with Morgenthaler Partners. Now, valuations are returning to normal. "There was enormous confidence supporting assumptions about valuations," he said. "We're now seeing the market correct, and some of that confidence is collapsing."
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  "This isn't a great business for banks," Taft said.
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  To try to ward off these sorts of problems, Taft's firm does a detailed assessment of the skills, strengths and weaknesses of every member of the management teams of the companies that it acquires.
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  "We've done a China joint venture with one of our portfolio companies," Taft noted.

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  The strong stock market and economy of the last several years had pushed corporate valuations to lofty levels and thus raised the prices that private equity investors had to pay to do deals, said Peter Taft, a Cleveland-based partner with Morgenthaler Partners.Now, valuations are returning to normal."There was enormous confidence supporting assumptions about valuations," he said."We're now seeing the market correct, and some of that confidence is collapsing."
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  "This isn't a great business for banks," Taft said.
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  To try to ward off these sorts of problems, Taft's firm does a detailed assessment of the skills, strengths and weaknesses of every member of the management teams of the companies that it acquires.
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  "We've done a China joint venture with one of our portfolio companies," Taft noted.

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  Peter Taft, Partner, Morgenthaler Partners

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  Morgenthaler partners, Alfred Stanley and Peter Taft, will serve on the Avtron board of directors.

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  01/18/08 Peter Taft Joins the Panel on Investment Strategies for the Middle Market
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  11/07/07 Peter Taft will be featured on a panel entitled "Competing for Deals - Strategic vs. Financial Buyers' Tactics."
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  06/25/07 Peter Taft on the Changing Nature of Private vs. Public Companies

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