Services

Four mandates, staffed by principals, run to institutional standards.

Each engagement is scoped around a specific question the client needs answered. The deliverable is always the same: a defensible conclusion and a process that gets there.

01

Sell-Side Advisory

Preparation, positioning, and process management for owners considering a sale.

The problem

Most middle-market owners sell once. Getting it right requires a curated process, a defensible story, and a banker who can hold the line when negotiations turn.

Our approach
  • Diligence-ready financial model built to sponsor and strategic standards.
  • Targeted buyer list with live relationship coverage across strategic, sponsor, and ESOP acquirers.
  • Written confidential information memorandum that frames the investment thesis for the buyer's investment committee.
  • Full process management from NDA through signing, staffed by principals.
Representative outcomes
  • Competitive-tension processes yielding 2–4 written indications.
  • Negotiated premiums above the opening bid via structured concession sequencing.
  • Clean, funded closings that preserve founder optionality post-transaction.
02

Buy-Side Advisory

Quiet origination and transaction support for strategic and sponsor-backed acquirers.

The problem

Sourcing is the hardest part of buy-side. Auctioned deals clear at peak prices; the real value lives in proprietary conversations with owners who aren't formally for sale.

Our approach
  • Sector-defined search with weekly outreach cadence and senior-banker coverage.
  • Target screening against a client-specific fit matrix — financial, cultural, operational.
  • Relationship-led introductions over transactional outreach; first meetings calibrated to the owner's timeline.
  • End-to-end execution support on letters of intent, diligence, and closing.
Representative outcomes
  • Proprietary access to mandates that would not have surfaced through an auction.
  • Off-market transactions closed at disciplined entry multiples.
  • Pipelines built over 18–36 months with multiple actionable mandates at any time.
03

Acquirer Assessments

Institutional evaluations of prospective acquirers — written from the buyer's point of view.

The problem

Before signing an LOI, sellers need to know who they're actually dealing with: the acquirer's archetype, capital stack, integration posture, and the real strategic urgency behind the offer.

Our approach
  • Primary analysis of the acquirer's history, financing capacity, and comparable transactions.
  • Strategic-fit scoring across market position, synergy potential, culture, and regulatory risk.
  • Reconstructed valuation models — trading comps, DCF, component-parts, and hard-asset floor — to pressure-test the acquirer's price.
  • Client portal delivery with the full written assessment, sensitivity matrices, and a working model.
Representative outcomes
  • Clear verdict with evidence: Engage, Conditional Engage, or Decline.
  • Negotiation anchor ranges tied to disciplined valuation methodology.
  • Seller posture informed by a 360° view of the acquirer — not only the investment banker's deck.
04

Valuation & Strategic Review

Third-party opinions and component-parts reviews for boards, ESOP fiduciaries, and owners.

The problem

Boards, shareholders, and ESOP fiduciaries need independent valuation work that holds up to scrutiny — not a one-page tear-sheet, and not an accounting-firm template.

Our approach
  • Segment-by-segment valuation with explicit methodology weights.
  • Supporting DCF models with documented WACC, terminal growth, and exit-multiple sensitivities.
  • Hard-asset floor analysis for downside protection.
  • Written opinion with an audit trail clean enough for fiduciary review.
Representative outcomes
  • Defensible valuation ranges supporting board votes, ESOP transactions, or estate planning.
  • Transaction-readiness snapshots identifying the next 18 months of value-creation levers.
  • Independent second opinions on existing deal terms or competing offers.

Exploring a mandate? We prefer to meet early.

Initial conversations are exploratory, confidential, and often happen 12–24 months before a transaction process begins.