Insight Webinar: Driving PE Value Creation with Luc Arsenault and the Baker Tilly team

Driving PE Value Creation: why “IPO readiness” is the wrong goal, and what replaced the private equity playbook of the last decade.

Insight Summits founder Nicholas Milano sits down with Luc Arsenault, Managing Principal and Private Equity Practice Leader at Baker Tilly, for a deep dive into what has actually changed in private equity, and what leading firms are doing about it. Speed, inexpensive leverage and multiple expansion drove returns for a decade. Today buyers are selective, holds have stretched, and earnings quality and cash flow predictability decide outcomes, moving the operative question from “how do we get this deal done?” to “can we make this a fundamentally better business?”

Luc shares insight into how Baker Tilly is helping PE firms drive that improvement: the back office reframed from cost center to strategic asset; tax strategy built once at the top and cascaded through portfolio companies so decisions can be modeled after-tax; the discipline of backing the few drivers that genuinely move enterprise value; and an extended look at private-to-public (P2P) transformation — why the goal is to be operating as a public company before the IPO, not scrambling to become one after.

This episode launches our co-hosted webinar series with Baker Tilly, Exclusive CPA Partner of the Insight Summits North America Private Equity Series for 2026–2027.