Paragon Legal Group
The Deal
- Bought By
- Trista Engel and Jessica Markowitz
- Year
- 2018
- Vehicle
- Calyx Capital Partners, backed by Anacapa Partners, Futaleufu Partners, Endurance Search Partners, Aspect Investors, Search Fund Partners, The Operand Group, The Cambria Group, Red Forest Capital, Applied Equity and M2O
- Kind
- Services
A legal-talent business that embeds attorneys inside a company's own legal department on a project basis, covering overflow work and hiring gaps rather than acting as the firm of record.
What Happened Next
Operating under its searchers. Four backers carry it: one pairs both of them with the company by name, one describes the work, a third books the purchase in a sentence with no year in it, and a fourth lists the company.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
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Aspect Investors
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The Cambria Group
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Red Forest Capital
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Applied Equity
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M2O
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Method & Source
This record is double-sourced: it joined when the purchase and, where the company has traded on, the exit could both be read in primary accounts.
- Futaleufu Partners' own account futaleufu-partners.com
- Anacapa Partners' own account anacapapartners.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's investments list, which carries the company and its own year. endurancesearchpartners.com
- The company's own account paragonlegal.com
- Aspect Investors' own account aspectinvestors.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's partners page naming Jessica Markowitz. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's partners page naming Trista Engel. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- The Operand Group's own account theoperandgroup.com
- The Cambria Group's own account cambriagroup.com
- Red Forest Capital's own account redforestcapital.com
- Applied Equity's own account, The backer's September 20, 2018 release, which announces the acquisition by the searchers' vehicle and both of them joining as managing directors. applied-equity.com
- Applied Equity's own account, The backer's gallery card for her, filed under a 2018 search fund label. applied-equity.com
- M2O's own account m2oinc.com
These sources name who runs the business and when the firm invested, rather than saying in a sentence that the searchers bought it. One backer's modals say Trista is the chief executive of Paragon Legal and Jessica is its president and chief operating officer. A second's grid states a purchase beside a Calyx Capital logo and names no person in text. A third's card gives the company, a description and the year 2018. The company's own site names no officer. The index host's card, lists the company against its own 2018 investment and names nobody.