Cove Partners provides advisory services to a wide variety of growing companies seeking liquidity by sale to a strategic or financial buyer. A senior professional with significant transactional experience leads every client engagement.

Our merger and acquisition advisory services include:

• Sell Side

• Buy Side

• Divestitures

• Equity and Leveraged Recapitalizations

• Management Buyouts

Whether selling a company, merging with another company, acquiring or divesting a business, we have the expertise to tailor and deliver the most appropriate transaction for each situation.

Utilizing our extensive network and proprietary database we prepare a well researched list of potential buyers that includes strategic buyers, foreign corporations, and private investment groups. Throughout the process our goals are to:

• Maintain confidentiality

• Contact only qualified buyers who have the means to consummate a transaction

• Shield management from the marketing minutiae, allowing it to focus on operations

• Manage an efficient and realistic transactional timeline

• Create an auction environment with several buyers bidding against each other to acquire the company so as to realize the highest valuation

• Select the winning bid and negotiate the agreements which will lead to a successful closing

Private Placements

Cove Partners leverages its deep relationships with private equity investors, mezzanine, and senior lenders to assist clients in raising capital through institutional private placements of equity, subordinated debt, and senior debt.

We focus on later-stage private transactions, typically those companies seeking to raise at least $5 million. Raised equity is generally used to finance continued internal growth or potential acquisitions. We can also arrange an equity and leveraged recapitalization to facilitate an alternative capital structure, a management buyout, or to provide partial liquidity to current owners and shareholders. Private placements may also provide an opportunity for strategic investors, such as business partners, customers, or suppliers, to contribute to a company's growth through an equity investment.

Equity Capital Markets

To further corporate growth, value recovery and the creation of wealth, Cove Partners investment bankers provide business owners insights to:

• Why companies with exceptional growth strategies need to raise money

• The capital raising outlook

• What makes private investments attractive

• Where investors are focusing their attention

• What it takes to raise capital, and on what terms

Debt Capital Markets

We can provide debt structured across the whole credit spectrum from simple senior secured bank financings to complex Term B and mezzanine  financing solutions.

Industry specialization and expertise enables us to penetrate issuers across a range of industries and to clearly and effectively present their value proposition to the widest spectrum of potential lenders available.  Investor penetration and strong research enables us to deliver highly structured and complex transactions to our investors.

Restructuring Advisory Services

Cove Partners brings operational and management experience to each corporate turnaround and restructuring engagement and our reputation for successful corporate turnarounds is built on the results we deliver. We know how in challenging times and under difficult circumstances to build consensus, manage expectations and lead the restructuring process to a successful conclusion, as we look to create lasting value and maximize recoveries while working alongside our clients as advisors or in an interim senior management position.

As a firm we help our clients manage the myriad of issues that surround a restructuring by typically performing the following roles and tasks:

• Advise lenders and equity groups on bankruptcy plan evaluation, reorganization and restructuring by serving as financial advisor

• Serve as financial advisor to Debtors and Creditors Committees

• Provide interim management (CEO, CFO, CRO, and others)

• Aligning costs with declining revenues or margins

• Identifying, understanding and managing away from risks

• Creating achievable business plans

• Communicating with key external and internal stakeholders

• Communicating with key external and internal stakeholders

• Implementing changes in strategy for long-term creation of shareholder value and sustainable success

We measure our success by our clients? success, and we demonstrate our confidence in what we do through a compensation structure that aligns our pay with achieving our clients' goals and objectives.

Valuation & Fairness Opinions

Our valuation services include sound financial, economic and market driven approaches to accurately establishing realistic value expectations.  Our valuation services provide a forward looking and decision making tool to help business executives explore strategic and financial alternatives and map out a strategy to achieve their goals.

Our Valuation Analysis is a meticulous yet comprehensive evaluation report, custom prepared for private and public companies alike to assist in evaluating strategic growth initiatives, transactions and other financial opportunities.  This report identifies company specific value enhancing factors, industry wide benchmarks and trends, and financial and economic perspectives on market valuation and risk considerations.  This mission-critical analysis is purpose built to identify financial and capitalization opportunities, in addition to the inherent characteristics of many sources of financing, in order to help management ascertain optimal capital structure factors and how to nourish the Company’s growth with available capitalization opportunities.

Our evaluation begins with a thorough examination of a company’s operations, management and organization structure, financial history, market position and future financial outlook.  The core objective of the report is to inform management and shareholders as to the company’s true market value, relative to comparable investment opportunities, by highlighting the potential for above average growth given industry specific valuation parameters and risk tolerance.  We identify and provide support for the true value of the investment opportunity by pulling together the following components:

• Detailed business description

• Business & industry analysis

• Historic & future financial analysis

• Valuation analysis

• Recommendations & strategy

Preparing management for key growth phases, while identifying what the Company is qualified to achieve, is integral to establishing realistic goals, making informed decisions and achieving value enhancing benchmarks.  Our commitment to accuracy, shareholder support and value appreciation are unparalleled in the middle market.