Investment Banking
We provide investment banking services through
Mentor Securities LLC, a preeminent middle market investment bank dedicated to providing the
highest quality, step-by-step advice to help you maximize value and successfully
complete a transaction.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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- Bankruptcy Code 363 sale
- Buy-Side search
- Sell-Side representation
- Corporate rollup and merger
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Executive Team
- Access to proprietary opportunities
- Industry expertise
- Joint Venture
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Corporate Finance
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- Capital structure analysis
- Debt restructuring
- ESOP
- Growth Capital (Debt / Equity)
- Mezzanine / Bridge funding
- Recapitalization
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Corporate Advisory
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- Board representation
- Industry market intelligence
- Management buyout
- Operating executives
- Strategic alternative analysis
- Transaction structuring
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Valuations
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- Business
- Cost segregations
- Court testimony
- Divestiture
- ESOP
- Fairness opinion
- Intellectual property
- Joint Venture / Strategic Alliance
- Real Estate / Equipment Appraisal
- Solvency opinion
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Example of Client Results Achieved
Due Diligence
Client: |
Oil and gas producer. |
Issues: |
Outside due diligence package for investment bank selling partnership interests. |
Result: |
Coordinated investigation report on management and geological details into
our due diligence report. Provided complete review and interpretation
of prior drilling projects, as well as private placement for new partnerships.
Included financial viability analysis of the producer, both historical
and pro-forma. |
Management Consulting
Client: |
Well-established short run/high electrical component manufacturer specializing
in high reliability parts to the defense, aerospace and commercial power
industries. |
Issues: |
With post Cold War slowdown in defense spending, the company was slow to
adjust its cost structure in response to reduced revenues. This created
major credit problems with the company’s foreign owned bank. |
Result: |
TMG management and financial consultants assumed temporary financial/operating
management roles. A new bank was selected who better understood the client’s
industry and business cycle. Simultaneously, TMG management consultants
help streamline and update firm’s manufacturing and accounting practices.
The company returned to profitability. |
Financial Management
Client: |
Nationwide retailer of self-serve gasoline, diesel, automotive and convenience
products with over 500 locations. |
Issues: |
Cash collection and centralization was inefficient and unreliable due to
location managers lax cash deposit and reporting procedures to headquarters by phone. |
Result: |
TMG management consultants designed a centralized call center staffed by
three operators, who initiated calls to each store location daily. Deposit
information was keyed into a custom designed computer data base formatted
for daily transmission to the concentration bank. The bank created automated
clearing house (ACH) debit checks each night to transfer funds from every
remote bank account. The net corporate savings in accelerated cash flow
(after system costs) exceeded $100,000 per year. |
Recapitalization
Client: |
Project Specialty Food, one of the largest food distributors in Western U.S. |
Issues: |
This private, closely-held family business sought to obtain liquidity for
the retiring shareholders while allowing management to increase their
ownership stake. |
Result: |
We structured a sale of the business in the form of a leveraged recapitalization
that allowed selling shareholders to receive substantial cash consideration
for their shares, while providing growth capital for the business. Deal
allowed family and non-family management members to increase their ownership
stake from 5 percent to 60 percent. |
Debt Raise
Client: |
Project Specialty Food, one of the largest food distributors in Western U.S. |
Issues: |
This company sought to refinance existing acquisition indebtedness and
secure growth capital in a difficult economy while earnings growth slowed.
The incumbent lender had issued a demand for payment for its loan, due
in 45 days from the date we were hired. |
Result: |
We secured senior cash flow credit facilities of $5 million from a highly-regarded
U.S. institution. We also removed the daily and monthly receivables reporting
requirement, as well as borrowing base certificate requirement. The interest
rates under the new credit facilities were 50 percent lower than previous
rates. Transaction completed within 30 days. |