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2025 Best Post-Transaction Performance Award Application

Introduction

Welcome! We’ve designed this application process to be as simple as possible for you to complete with hopefully minimal demands on your time. (We know you and your team are busy!) Importantly, this application process does not require you to share any confidential or proprietary information about your firm or your acquisition.

However, you will need to gather the following information about a single, high-performing acquisition of your choosing that your firm made between January 1, 2018, and June 1, 2024:

1. Net revenues for the 12 months prior to the transaction and the 12 months immediately after the transaction.

2. Profit* for the 12 months prior to the transaction and the 12 months immediately after the transaction.
* Note: You may define profit in any way that you choose (i.e. pre-tax profit, operating profit, EBITDA, etc.) – so long as you use the same definition for both time periods and the metric represents profit after staff/employee/non-owner bonuses have been paid.

3. Net backlog at the time of the transaction and at 12 months after the transaction.

4. Voluntary turnover rate for the 12 months prior to the transaction and the 12 months immediately after the transaction.

Don’t have performance information for all four of the indicators? Don’t worry. You can still submit an application.

Once you’ve gathered this information you’re ready to begin the simple eight step application process as follows (which should take you no more than 20 minutes to complete!):

Step 1: Tell us about yourself and your firm. (who you are, contact info.)

Step 2: Tell us about your chosen acquisition. (size, goals, description of how you improved performance)

Step 3: Enter the net revenue performance for the acquisition.

Step 4: Enter the profit performance for the acquisition.

Step 6: Enter the backlog performance for the acquisition.

Step 7: Enter the voluntary turnover rate performance for the acquisition.

Step 8: Hit “Submit” to calculate the Acquisition Performance Indicator (API) for your chosen acquisition. The API is calculated by adding the results from each of the performance metrics.

The API for your chosen acquisition will be compared with those of the other applicants in your acquisition size category. There are three size categories – acquisitions up to $10 million, acquisitions between $10 and $50 million, and acquisitions greater than $50 million. The applicant in each size category with the highest API will be the recipients of this year’s Best Post-Transaction Performance Award.

A note before you begin:
If you begin filling out a form but leave before completing and submitting the application, there’s a chance that the information you’ve entered in the various fields could be lost. To avoid this potential loss of data, it’s recommended that you gather all the necessary information beforehand and ensure you have the time to complete the application in one sitting.

The application window is open until September 26th.

Ready? Let’s begin!

Best Post-Transaction Performance Award Application

Step 1 of 6: Enter you and your firm’s information
*=required fields
Name(Required)
We request your mobile number and email to contact you should you be a recipient of the award or if we have questions about your application.

Best Post-Transaction Performance Award Application

Step 2 of 6: Enter information about your chosen acquisition
Select your goals for this acquisition. Check all that apply.
Add employees
Geographic expansion
Add/improve services
Capture new clients/markets
Other goal
Size of acquisition(Required)
Select the size of the acquisition in terms of net revenues at the time of the transaction.

Best Post-Transaction Performance Award Application

Step 3 of 6: Enter net revenue data for your chosen acquisition


In the box below enter the value resulting from the following calculation:

CALCULATION:
(Net Revenue of acquired firm for the 12 months immediately post transaction divided by net revenue in the twelve months immediately prior to transaction) MINUS 1
(If you do not have revenue data, then enter 0.0 in the box below.)

Please note that this calculation does not yield a dollar value. Instead it results in a numeric value based on the difference in performance between the two time periods (post- and pre-transaction) as in the example below. This is the value that you should enter in the box.

EXAMPLE:

• Acquired firm net revenues for 12 months immediately post transaction is $20 million
• Acquired firm net revenues for the 12 months prior to transaction is $19 million

(20/19) – 1 = .052 (result will be automatically rounded to 2 decimal places when you enter in the box)

Please enter a number from -999 to 99.

Best Post-Transaction Performance Award Application

Step 4 of 6: Enter profit data for your chosen acquisition


In the box below enter the value for your chosen acquisition resulting from the following calculation:

CALCULATION:
(Profit for the 12 months immediately post transaction divided by profit in the twelve months immediately prior to the transaction) MINUS 1

Note: You may define profit in any way that you choose (i.e. pre-tax profit, operating profit, EBITDA, etc.) – so long as you use the same definition for both time periods and the metric represents profit after staff/employee/non-owner bonuses have been paid.
(If you do not have profit data, then enter 0.0 in the box below.)

Please note that this calculation does not yield a dollar value. Instead it results in a numeric value based on the difference in performance between the two time periods (post- and pre-transaction) as in the example below. Please enter this value in the box.

EXAMPLE:

• Acquired firm operating profit for 12 months post transaction is $3 million
• Acquired firm operating profit for 12 months prior to transaction is $1.5 million

(3/1.5)-1 = 1

Please enter a number from -999 to 99.

Best Post-Transaction Performance Award Application

Step 5 of 6: Enter Backlog Data for your chosen acquisition


In the box below enter the value for your chosen acquisition resulting from the following calculation:

CALCULATION:
(Hard net backlog* at 12 months post transaction divided by hard net backlog at time of the transaction) MINUS 1
*Defined as work under contract not yet performed
(If you do not have backlog data, enter 0.0 in the box below)

Please note that this calculation does not yield a dollar value. Instead it results in a numeric value based on the difference in backlog between the two time periods (post- and pre-transaction) as in the example below. Please enter this value in the box.

EXAMPLE:

• Backlog of acquired firm 12 months after the acquisition was $21 million
• Backlog of acquired firm at time of the acquisition was $15 million

(21/15)-1 = 0.4

Please enter a number from -999 to 99.

Best Post-Transaction Performance Award Application

Step 6 of 6: Enter Voluntary Turnover Data for your chosen acquisition


In the box below enter the value for your chosen acquisition resulting from the following calculation:
(If you do not have voluntary turnover data, enter 0.0 in the box below)

CALCULATION:
(Voluntary Turnover Rate* for 12 months post transaction divided by voluntary turnover rate for the twelve months prior to transaction) MINUS 1
*Defined as the number of voluntary terminations divided by the average number of employees over the time period, then multiply the result by 100.
(If you do not have voluntary turnover data, enter 0.0 in the box below)

EXAMPLE:

• Acquired firm Voluntary Turnover Rate for 12 months post transaction is 7%
• Acquired firm Voluntary Turnover Rate for 12 months prior to transaction is 8%

(7/8)-1 = -0.125

Please enter a number from -999 to 99.
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You have now completed the data entry for your application. The API for your chosen acquisition will be calculated by adding the revenue, profit, and backlog values entered and subtracting the voluntary turnover value entered. To finalize your application and reveal your MG API score, select the “Submit Application” button below.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

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