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To meet our clients’ financial needs, Barrier Advisors has tailored the following solutions:
Barrier Advisors is adept at maximizing value in sale assignments where the business must be skillfully positioned with potential buyers to maximize value. Our team is highly experienced at selling companies across a broad range of industries and performance levels, and is particularly adept at selling synergies and cost reduction opportunities to increase valuation.
The track records of some businesses speak for themselves. The sale of businesses like these is more a matter of exposing the business to the right buyers and then letting the market forces do the rest. Typically these companies are sold by traditional investment banks.
Other businesses have solid intrinsic value, but their value must be realized through skilled presentation of upside opportunities, synergies and cost reduction possibilities, coupled with passionate selling of the value of the company's market franchise. These are the kinds of companies that Barrier Advisors excels at selling. These businesses are sold, not bought, and Barrier Advisors is one of the best in the business at getting buyers to realize and pay for value.
Barrier Advisors' sale process is designed to maximize alternatives under tight schedules and to realize maximum value for our clients. We strike the ideal balance between subtle salesmanship and zealous advocacy of value in representing our clients.
Barrier Advisors' staff is comprised of investment banking professionals as well as CPA's, CFA's, lenders and attorneys who bring a broad skill set to bear on a potential acquisition opportunity. Our clients look to us for auction tactics, valuation guidance, structuring ideas, and due diligence.
Middle market companies which engage only their law firm and their accounting firm to assist in an acquisition are missing a value adding element of advice that is fundamental to the completion of a well-priced, well-bought, well-financed acquisition. Time spent with Barrier Advisors discussing valuation, structure and financing may well be the best hours a middle market CEO or CFO can spend during the course of an acquisition. This could result in:
- A structure that substantially reduces your risk,
- A financing alternative that is both lower cost and less risky than what your bankers are offering,
- A valuation assessment that either validates a good deal or avoids a bad one,
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- Due diligence that reveals projection or business plan inconsistencies.
When a management team is given the opportunity to buy a business from the corporate parent, the controlling family or the financial sponsor, it is a rare opportunity that should not be wasted. Speed, credibility and adequate financial resources are key. Barrier Advisors was founded under the aegis of one of the largest institutional investors in the US. We enjoy a robust relationship with this institution that can provide sponsorship and capital for talented management teams seeking advice and capital for buyout opportunities.
Barrier Advisors acts as a merchant banker to assist its institutional partner and other institutions in finding and/or assessing investment opportunities across most industries. Our longstanding relationships provide insight, alternatives and assistance to Barrier Advisors' clients seeking financing.
In certain cases, teaming with our institutional partner may not make sense from a business perspective. Barrier Advisors' relationships with over one hundred other US financial sponsors, lenders and hedge funds allows us to deliver the best possible partner for your team.
Barrier Advisors is affiliated with one of the largest institutional investors in the US. This relationship allows Barrier Advisors to guide its clients through the financing process with the investor while simultaneously seeking the best terms the rest of the financial markets will offer.
Barrier Advisors can deliver rapid turnaround, hedge fund-like responses on financing requests, including bridge financing, term loans, junior secured loans, rescue financing, mezzanine and equity financing across a broad range of sizes and structures in most industries.
In some cases our clients' fit with our affiliated institution is not optimal. In these cases, Barrier Advisors' relationships with over one hundred other financial sponsors, lenders and hedge funds allows us to identify the best financing partner for our clients. Barrier Advisors operates independently and is committed to delivering the best possible financing solution that is customized to the needs of each client.
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