Fundraising & Financing
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Negotiating deal terms, structure, and conditions from term sheet to closing documents
Get seasoned advice to help you accelerate your growth. Whether you are raising your first dollar of outside money or building upon a prior round, investors need to understand your growth potential. We help to demystify the process, providing tailored advice with the confidence to get a deal done.
Are you a CEO or founder:
Who needs help communicating your company’s investment thesis?
Who wants to think through multiple scenarios?
Who wants to make hiring decisions with confidence in your finances?
Who needs to understand where to reinvest in your business?
Who wants to accelerate your growth rate?
Who needs access to non-dilutive financing options?
Through our Fundraising & Financing service, you will get the comfort and reliability to raise money on the best available terms.
+ Our Fundraising & Financing service includes:
- Conducting a strategic alternative assessment
- Advising you through all steps of a transaction
- Valuation analyses & shareholder return exercise
- Crafting an investor presentation
- Building a multi-scenario investment model
- Budgeting for hiring
- Sales and marketing spend plans
- Revenue sensitivity analyses
- Leading the financial due diligence process
- For SaaS: revenue and deferred revenue schedules
- Populating and maintaining a data room
- Negotiation deal terms, structure, and conditions from term sheet to closing documents
- Assisting in drafting legal documents
- Supporting post-close reporting requirements
- Presenting analyses to the Board and shareholders
We also support bank financings such as lines of credit, revenue-based, asset-based, term loans and notes.
Current & Past Clients Include:
Mergers & Acquisitions
Negotiating deal terms, structure, and conditions from Term Sheet/LOI to closing documents
Get seasoned advice for the most critical events in a company’s lifecycle. Whether you are selling your business for the first time or looking to make your first purchase, there are many aspects to consider, prepare and plan for. We help to demystify the process, providing tailored advice with the confidence to get a deal done.
Are you a CEO or founder:
Who is looking to sell a company for the first time?
Who does not feel that your financials, books and records are “buttoned up” for a sales process?
Who wants help negotiating terms and structuring the sale of your business?
Who wants to implement a post-merger integration plan for an upcoming acquisition?
Through our Mergers & Acquisition service, you will get the confidence and dependability to go from negotiation to finalizing a transaction.
+ Our Mergers & aquisition service includes:
- Advising you through all steps of a transaction whether as a seller or a buyer
- Valuation analyses, shareholder payout and return exercises
- Conducting a sellside preparedness analysis
- Leading the financial due diligence process
- For SaaS: revenue and deferred revenue schedules
- Populating and maintaining a data room
- Negotiation deal terms, structure, and conditions from Term Sheet/LOI to closing documents
- Considering an asset vs. stock transaction
- Assisting in drafting legal documents
- Advising on employment offers and earnout structures
- Supporting post-close requirements for a buyer
- Presenting analyses to the Board and shareholders
- Modeling and budgeting an acquisition on a pro forma basis
- Cost save identification and synergy analyses
- Drafting and executing the post-merger integration
- Determining Working Capital and Purchase Price Adjustments
- Establishing the Purchase Price Accounting treatment
- Planning employee retention and workforce combination
- Consolidate back-office operations (vendor consolidation, ERP harmonization)
We also support carve-outs, divestitures, transition services, joint ventures, and equity investments.
Current & Past Clients Include:
Turnaround & Restructuring
ADVISORY & EXECUTION TO SUCCEED THROUGH ADVERSE CONDITIONS
Get data-driven advice to make difficult decisions. Whether you are facing a challenging market or have hit a rough patch, the need to take quick and decisive action becomes more imperative as each day passes.
We help to provide actionable steps to ensure your company gets through these hard times.
Are you a CEO or founder:
Who has to make the unenviable decision on who to let go?
Who needs help renegotiating with lenders or vendors?
Who wants to cut costs, but not jeopardize the long-term business?
Who wants to think through multiple scenarios?
Through our Turnaround & Restructuring service, you will receive the analysis and empathy to navigate through adversity.
+ Our Turnaround & Restructuring service includes:
- Constructing a detailed 13-week cashflow forecast by client and vendor to manage cashflow
- Analyzing liquidity, working capital and cash conversion for performance improvement
- Assessing headcount for Reduction in Force planning
- Evaluating invoices and spending patterns to evaluate cost saves
- Renegotiating and restructuring terms with banks and suppliers
- Conducting 30, 60, and 90-Day Planning
- Budgeting and strategic planning on an annual basis or rolling quarterly
- Validating assumptions
- Bottoms-up forecasting
- Process improvements
- Sensitivity analyses
- Zero-based budgeting
- Baseline plus
- Compare your budget to actuals
Current & Past Clients Include:
Financial Strategy & Operations
STRATEGIC PLANNING, BUDGETING & FORECASTING FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AND BOARDS
Get a full breath of CFO capabilities on a fractional basis. Whether you are venture-backed or bootstrapped, managing your finances for a rapidly growing business can be a challenge. Finance at scaling companies tends to get overlooked until it is too late.
Are you a CEO or founder:
Who is too busy to provide direction and guidance to your bookkeeper?
Who needs help building out the finance and accounting team?
Who wants to make your hiring decisions with confidence in your finances?
Who wants to understand the drivers of your business better?
Through our Financial Strategy & Operations service, you will get the experience and expertise to be better equipped to make strategic decisions.
+ Our Financial Strategy & Operations service includes:
- Managing your monthly close process with a reporting package of key financial matters
- Constructing a growth model for hiring, marketing and capital investment plans
- Building a detailed 13-week cashflow forecast by client and vendor to manage cash, quarterly board decks
- Budgeting and strategic planning on an annual basis or rolling quarterly
- Validating assumptions
- Bottoms-up forecasting
- Process improvements
- Sensitivity analyses
- Zero-based budgeting
- Baseline plus
- Compare your budget to actuals
- Assisting with board or investor presentation
- Structuring option, incentive, and sales compensation plans
- Implementing financial planning and analysis (FP&A) best practices
- Developing strategic KPIs & reporting, covering finance, sales, and operations
- For SaaS: cohort, segmentation, net dollar expansion/churn, sales pipeline, bookings-to-billings-to-revenue reports- LTV/CAC, win/loss, payback
- Tracking employee utilization rates
- Determining Marketing ROI
- Overseeing quarterly and annual tax filings
Current & Past Clients Include:
Accounting & Tax Support
OVERSIGHT & MANAGEMENT FOR FINANCIAL AND TAX COMPLIANCE
Get leverage from your accounting operations with seasoned CFO capabilities. Whether you have an outsourced bookkeeper or a small internal team, you want the comfort of knowing that someone is overseeing the cash and tax aspects of the business.
Are you a CEO or founder:
Who needs help with getting the first audit done?
Who has international operations and needs a point-person to ensure compliance?
Who needs help documenting procurement policies?
Who believes there are internal control weaknesses?
Who wants to improve the monthly close process?
Through our Accounting & Tax Support service, you will get the peace of mind that tax deadlines are being met.
+ Our Accounting & Tax Support service includes:
- Developing accounting policies and procedures
- Assessing internal controls to identify weakness
- Leading quarterly and annual tax filings for US and international operations
- Applying for state and federal R&D tax credits
- Managing financial audits
- GAAP compliance
- First audit with opening balance sheet
- Financial statement creation, review, reconciliation and analysis
- Reducing close time
Current & Past Clients Include:
