Successfully acquiring the right business is a significant undertaking. From identifying high-potential targets, to financial and valuation assessments, to analyzing the fit of the business model, culture, and growth strategy with your company, you want to ensure an opportunity aligns perfectly with your objectives.
To attempt to maximize your return on investment, you need an experienced partner who brings a world class acquisition process, strong industry relationships, and a fierce commitment to achieving your objectives.
That’s exactly the kind of discipline and tenacity we offer to middle-market companies.
Giving you the advantage.
Objective, Investment Banking & Valuation provides Buy-side M&A Advisory services that focus on two specific scenarios:
- Working with clients who are ready to start the process of identifying strategic acquisition opportunities
- Working with clients who already have an interested seller
Our in-depth industry knowledge, sophisticated processes, and firsthand buyer experience is intended to rebalance the competitive advantage to our clients, allowing us to:
- Identify a greater number of high-fit acquisition opportunities
- Understand sellers’ objectives and validate fit with our clients’ goal
- Creatively structure and negotiate better deals
Our disciplined process.
We believe executing a highly disciplined buy-side process is the only way to avoid the risk of a time-intensive, fruitless process, or worse, a poor investment. Employing their specialized knowledge and deep industry expertise, our professionals execute a highly disciplined process to define target criteria, identify best-fit opportunities, strive to ensure rigorous due-diligence, and structure and negotiate a meaningful transaction.
To attempt to achieve the best price and fit for our clients, we:
- Commit senior investment bankers with industry-specific experience to your acquisition process
- Work closely with you to establish a full set of target criteria that will define a successful acquisition
- Identify high potential acquisition targets and conduct an in-depth evaluation of target’s businesses management and culture. Most importantly, disqualifying targets that are not a good fit
- Deliver a comprehensive, objective valuation of each target and construct an appropriate transaction structure
- Uncover opportunities to finance the transaction, such as debt financing and growth equity, and help you secure the capital you need to close
- Negotiate the price and terms of a transaction that is engineered to achieve all of your objectives
