Bill Barnum, partner at Los Angeles-based Brentwood Associates
Brentwood Associates partner Bill Barnum spoke with Gregory Roth of Buyouts magazine for their June 6 issue on consumer-specialty firms and the ongoing trends of sector-specific private equity funds.
“On the whole, the consumer industry bounced back pretty significantly from where it was. It may have been more volatile during the downturn, but now it seems to be recovering quite strongly,” Barnum says in the interview.
Buyouts is the premier source of news, data, analysis and interpretation of trends in the private equity industry and regularly features a “Five Questions With…” section where industry professionals share their opinions.
Brentwood Associates is a leading consumer-focused private equity investment firm based in Los Angeles. Founded in 1972, Brentwood has an extensive history of investing in leading middle-market growth companies. With an aggregate transaction value of over $5 billion and a current equity pool of over $750 million, Brentwood Associates is the leading consumer private equity firm in the West.
