Yards After the Catch w/ TA’s Hythem El-Nazer

In this episode of Dry Powder, Hugh MacArthur interviews Hythem El-Nazer, co-managing partner of TA Associates, about value creation and portfolio performance post-investment. Hythem details TA's strategic resource group (SRG), a 40-person team that collaborates with deal and management teams to enhance value through revenue acceleration and add-on acquisitions. TA Associates focuses on the middle market across technology, business services, financial services, and healthcare, primarily in North America and Europe. A key strategy involves early liquidity through partial deals, reinvesting in successful companies, and leveraging their extensive network to identify add-on acquisition opportunities, with over 1,500 acquisitions to date. The firm emphasizes a culture of generating liquidity, incentivizing employees to drive exits, and maintaining a long-term partnership model focused on being the best growth private equity firm in the middle market.