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SELL – SIDE ADVISORY | PRIVATE COMPANY SALES AND CORPORATE DIVESTITURES

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We work with clients to understand their objectives and the specific needs. We perform comprehensive due diligence, provide detailed financial analyses and create customized solutions. We position the company to maximize the value in a sale or recapitalization, and we determine the optimal time to execute a marketing process based on company performance and prevailing market conditions. Our industry knowledge helps define the most likely and capable interested acquirers. We see the transaction through to structuring, negotiations and closing.

 

BUY – SIDE ADVISORY | ACQUISITIONS AND INVESTMENTS

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We assist clients in evaluating market opportunities and identifying potential acquisitions that fit their objectives and strategies. As an independent firm, we provide objective advice about the merits of target companies and their value. We help to determine the optimal approach, assist in the due diligence, provide rigorous valuation analyses and help structure and negotiate the transaction.

 

FINANCING

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We can raise capital at all points in a company’s development cycle. Typical assignments include sourcing growth capital for promising smaller companies, acquisition financing for more established companies, sourcing new bank debt, subordinated debt in recapitalizations of stressed/distressed companies completing a turnaround, exit financing in a reorganization, or private placements of equity and convertible debt for publicly traded companies.

 

SPECIAL SITUATION AND RESTRUCTURING GROUP

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We have a Special Situations and Restructuring Group that assists companies with substantial financial burdens, providing financial restructuring and operational solutions both in and out of bankruptcy to maximize value for all stakeholders. We offer our clients a unique complement of services with professionals who have a broad array of backgrounds and skills. Our principals include professionals with substantial experience advising financially troubled companies and their various constituencies with respect to recapitalizations, financings and distressed M&A.

 

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS ADVISORY SERVICE ARE THE FOUNDATION OF THE SCF PLATFORM

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Our professionals can offer unique insight into a company’s strategic and operating plans. As needed, we can assist in the following:

• Developing stabilization programs to minimize losses and conserve cash without impairing the ability to rehabilitate

• Performing a viability assessment to benchmark the company’s strengths and weaknesses considering industry dynamics and the competitive landscape

• Developing a strategic business plan that articulates the goals, objectives and specific action programs intended to restore viability and improve profitability and cash flow

 

RECAPITALIZATION AND REORGANIZATION

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We have advised companies and creditor groups in recapitalization transactions across a broad spectrum of industries. To the extent a recapitalization is pursued, we can develop all analysis required, including debt capacity and capital assessment analyses. We can design debt and equity instruments to be exchanged for existing securities and tradable at ascribed values, and assist in developing the reorganization plan, either in or out-of-court. Shark7 can also negotiate the reorganization with a company’s various stakeholders and assist in effecting each of the transactions contemplated pursuant to the plan.

 

DEBT AND EQUITY CAPITAL RAISING

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Distressed companies often find it difficult to attract the capital needed to fund their business plans. Our professionals, in conjunction with Shark7 Special situation Group, have been successful at raising debt, equity, mezzanine and other forms of hybrid capital, often in very difficult situations. We can assess a company’s capital needs and determine options for procuring capital from various sources. We have relationships with the providers of capital at all capital structure levels, including bank lenders, mezzanine capital providers and private equity funds.

 

DEBT AND EQUITY CAPITAL RAISING

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For more than 25 years, we have provided M&A services both in and out of bankruptcy across a variety of industries. In difficult settings, our professionals have represented many clients through the restructuring process.

 

VALUATION AND EXPERT TESTIMONY

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Our professionals have provided valuation services in a variety of transactional contexts and in highly litigious situations. For distressed companies, valuation is a fundamental analysis because it provides a benchmark for creditor recoveries. To the extent required, Shark7 can provide fair opinions and expert testimony to facilitate transactions.