A private equity franchise acquisition changes the calendar before it changes the strategy: the hundred-day plan, the reporting cadence, and what franchisees notice.
Christian Pillat · August 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Insights
AI in Franchising
Practical notes on AI in franchising: what to govern, what to measure, and what actually changes for the people running locations.
Enterprise Value
What Successful Emerging Franchise Brands Give Up in Order to Compound
Successful emerging franchise brands pay visible costs for durable habits: declined candidates, a slower opening curve, support funded from royalties, not fees.
Christian Pillat · August 19, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Should I Sell My Franchise Company? First Work Out Which Question That Is
Should I sell my franchise company is four questions in one costume: fatigue, illiquidity, a missing skill, or a number somebody named. Separate them first.
Christian Pillat · August 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
How to Increase Franchise Valuation in the Next Twelve Months
Increase franchise valuation in a year by separating the levers that answer to work from the ones that answer only to elapsed time you cannot buy back.
Christian Pillat · July 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Scaling a Founder-Led Franchise: The Four Handoffs Nobody Schedules
Scaling a founder-led franchise means handing off four things nobody wrote down: exceptions, tie-breaks, noticing, and being the call of last resort.
Christian Pillat · July 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Helping Franchisees Exit Well: Running a Franchise Resale Process
A franchise resale process is the franchisor's work once an owner decides to sell: valuation support, buyer sourcing, and keeping the unit trading to closing.
Christian Pillat · July 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Clean Records, Lower Risk: Franchise Litigation Documentation as Defence
Franchise litigation documentation is built in ordinary months: support dated, policies acknowledged, decisions traceable. And the reason records cut both ways.
Christian Pillat · June 25, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Sell a Franchise Business at a Premium: Valuation Follows Documentation
Sell franchise business premium valuation gaps are usually documentation gaps. What buyers mean by documented, and the record that cannot be built late.
Christian Pillat · June 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Franchise Validation Calls: The Item 19 You Do Not Write
Franchise validation calls decide more deals than your disclosure document does. What candidates ask, what your owners can cite, and why coaching them backfires.
Christian Pillat · May 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
The FDD Amendment Process as a Forcing Function
The FDD amendment process is the one deadline in a franchise system nobody gets to move. Used as a calendar, it schedules the work that otherwise slips a year.
Christian Pillat · May 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
The Item 19 Substantiation File: Documentation That Survives an Examiner
Item 19 substantiation documentation, examiner-facing: the scope memo, the dated extract, the exclusion log and the sign-off that let a stranger rebuild your number.
Christian Pillat · April 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Raising Capital for a Franchise Business: The Twelve-Month Runway
Raising capital franchise business founders can actually use takes twelve months of preparation — and a harder question first: what the money is genuinely for.
Christian Pillat · April 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Standardized Financial Reporting, Franchise-Wide: Making the Numbers an Asset
Standardized financial reporting franchise-wide is three agreements: one chart of accounts, one close date, one definition per line. Plus the franchisee pitch.
Christian Pillat · March 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
The Blind Spot: Private Equity Franchise Investment Risks Nobody Prices
Private equity franchise investment risks include one no diligence process prices: location financials that cannot be compared. Why it survives every deal.
Christian Pillat · March 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Private Equity Due Diligence in Franchise Systems: What Associates Actually Check
Private equity due diligence franchise processes, from inside the data room: the five files associates re-derive, and the discount each one carries when it is thin.
Christian Pillat · February 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Every Franchise Decision Is a Royalty Stream Strategy
A franchise royalty stream strategy ranks every decision by one test: does it make the stream longer, larger or more certain? Applied to fees, standards and growth.
Christian Pillat · January 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
A Founder's Guide to Franchisor Enterprise Value: What You Actually Own
Franchisor enterprise value is not the logo or the locations. It is the royalty stream and the system that makes it credible — and here is what quietly erodes it.
Christian Pillat · December 26, 2025 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
Item 19 FDD Requirements: What a Credible Financial Performance Representation Looks Like
Item 19 FDD requirements set a low floor: a representation is optional. Credibility comes from average unit revenue, quartiles and a defensible data trail.
Christian Pillat · November 28, 2025 · 5 min read
Enterprise Value
The Franchise Business Valuation Multiple: What Actually Sets It
A franchise business valuation multiple is tiered by system size, not fixed. Here is what moves a specific brand up or down the range, and what you control.
Christian Pillat · October 2, 2025 · 6 min read
Enterprise Value
Why Franchise Brands Die Young: The Franchise Brand Failure Rate Nobody Quotes at Discovery Day
The franchise brand failure rate is not published by anyone. Here is what is: 4,000 brands, flat for years, against 300 to 400 launches annually — and why.
Christian Pillat · September 9, 2025 · 5 min read
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