Learn Private Equity the Practical Way

Watch a real session on how investors evaluate businesses

This is a free session from our private equity bootcamp, where we walk through how investors analyze real opportunities.

What you will learn

In this session, you’ll learn:

How to evaluate a business from an investor’s perspective
What makes an attractive private equity deal
How lower middle market investors think about opportunities
A real case study breakdown

Enroll In A Complimentary PE Foundations Bootcamp Session!

Featured Training Modules

Preview lessons from the GEX Private Equity Academy covering lower middle market private equity, deal evaluation, LBO fundamentals, diligence, and value creation.

Sector Dynamics in LMM

Learn what makes certain industries attractive in lower middle market private equity.

The Quantitative Framework

Understand how investors translate business analysis into financial assumptions and returns.

Building a Diligence Checklist

See how PE firms structure diligence to identify risks and validate investment assumptions.

Conducting Effective Management Q&A

Learn how investors evaluate management teams and ask the right questios during diligence.

The Quality of Earnings (QoE) Process

Understand how PE firms validate earnings quality and identify financial adjustments.

Building a Post-Close Value Creation Team

Learn how private equity firms think about operational improvement after closing a deal.

LBO Walkthroughs & Investment Assumptions

Preview how private equity investors think through transaction assumptions and evaluate returns in lower middle market deals.

The GEX Private Equity Academy includes practical walkthroughs of how lower middle market private equity deals are analyzed and modeled in practice.

This preview focuses on transaction assumptions and the core drivers that influence investment returns, including:

Entry and exit assumptions
Leverage considerations
Growth expectations
Return sensitivity

Continue Building Your Private Equity Skillset

The GEX Private Equity Academy combines structured online learning with practical, real-world application across the private equity investment process.

The online course expands further into:

P&L and balance sheet projections
Operating assumptions and forecasting
Debt schedules and leverage analysis
Transaction adjustments
Returns analysis
Investment memo development
Real-world case study walkthroughs

The Bootcamp and Practicum programs build on these concepts through live analysis, interactive discussions, and deeper walkthroughs designed to strengthen investment judgment, diligence thinking, and practical execution skills in lower middle market private equity.