Max Value - Exit and Growth Strategies for Mid-Sized Businesses
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CFA's investment banking professionals write about a broad range of services in support of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, capital raising, and corporate restructuring.
Latest Blog Posts
- Successfully Executing the Optimal Exit Strategy on Nov 19, 2009 in Exit Strategies baby boomers Investment Banking selling your business
Part 1 of 7: The Challenge In advising business owners during this past year, I have seen, firsthand, how unforgiving the market has become. In one case, rather than wait to sign an LOI, a seller invested in audited financial statements simply to inc...
- Are You Overleveraged But Too Undervalued to Sell? on Nov 13, 2009 in Corporate Finance Investment Banking john hammett mezzanine debt overleveraged and undervalued reduce bank debt
Mezzanine Debt Today’s economy has put many private companies in a tight spot. Companies end up with too much bank debt as business volume and profits contract. But lower earnings mean that company owners who would have been ready to sell their...
- Transparency in Earnings on Oct 19, 2009 in Investment Banking busiess valuation Earning Transparency EBITDA selling your business tax avoidance tax deferral tax strategies
Not Just For Big Companies Recently, I was asked to speak to a group of CEOs of mid-sized companies regarding EBITDA and its importance to them as business owners. Several questions from the group centered on what I will loosely call “tax avoidance...
- Business Valuation: Continued! on Sep 30, 2009 in Business Valuation Investment Banking adjusted-book-method cost-method DCF-method fair-market-value future-probability selling your business selling-business
Another look at “Valuation: Getting the Right Price When Selling Your Business”, an article by Gary Parker. I think Gary has done an excellent job of summarizing the valuation process. However, I feel that he and many others that have written ab...
- Management Buyouts: An Optimal Investment and Exit Alternative on Sep 18, 2009 in Exit Strategies Investment Banking
Middle Market investment banking activities felt the effects of the financial crisis. M&A deal volume for the middle market fell 39 percent in 2008 compared to 2007 and has fallen even further into 2009. The harsh credit markets have left the...
- So Where’s the Silver Lining? on Sep 1, 2009 in Investment Banking cylical market deal volume down low buyouts recession strengthening public stock market valuation multiples
For companies with valuations less than $100 million, deal volume for the first half of 2009 was down 58% compared to 2008 as reported by the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA). Those numbers don’t sound like good news for co...
- Five Winning Strategies for Early-Stage Companies on Jul 16, 2009 in Corporate Finance cash-burn early-stage-companies invesment banker revenue-traction winnning strategies
Successful or not as an early stage company, consider these five winning strategies that will keep your company in the game through good and bad times: 1) Stay focused on Revenue Traction 2) Manage Cash Burn 3) License the Technology 4) Use Board Me...
