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.
Sell-Side Advisory
Preparation, positioning, and process management for owners considering a sale.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Buy-Side Advisory
Quiet origination and transaction support for strategic and sponsor-backed acquirers.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Acquirer Assessments
Institutional evaluations of prospective acquirers — written from the buyer's point of view.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Valuation & Strategic Review
Third-party opinions and component-parts reviews for boards, ESOP fiduciaries, and owners.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
