1,500 Deals, 20 Acquisitions, 1 Gut Punch with Sequoya Borgman
About this episode
Sequoya Borgman discusses his transition from public accounting to founding Borgman Capital and the challenges of independent sponsorship in acquisitions.
In this episode of the M&A Launchpad Podcast, hosts Casey Minshew and Feras Moussa sit down with Sequoya Borgman, Founder & CEO of Borgman Capital, a Milwaukee-based independent sponsor firm that has completed over 20 acquisitions in roughly a decade. Sequoya shares how he left an 18-year career in public accounting — rising to Partner at a Big Four firm — to launch Borgman Capital in 2017 with nothing but a deal under LOI that promptly fell apart a week before close. He breaks down how the independent sponsor model actually works, why the first deal makes or breaks your track record, how people problems quietly tank more investments than anything else, and what Borgman looks for in the food and equipment rental spaces that keep them coming back. In this episode, we discuss: Why Sequoya walked away from a Partner-track career at a Big Four firm after 18 years in public accounting — and what finally pushed him to make the jump The gut-punch of his first deal: an LOI lined up before he quit his job that collapsed a week before close when the seller chose his son instead How he closed his first deal nine months after launching — a material handling manufacturer — and why…
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