M&A Insights
Stay on Top of the Changing M&A Landscape.
When Suitors Come Knocking {with a diligence phalanx in tow}
The dynamic of running an M&A sale process differs significantly from responding to unsolicited offers. Using an Indication of Interest (IOI) can streamline initial evaluations, preserving sensitive information and saving time. If interest persists, running a competitive process can maximize value. Ultimately, understanding who is courting whom is crucial for navigating these transactions effectively.
How to Choose the Right Bidder in a Sell-Side M&A: Evaluating LOIs
It all begins with an idea.
Navigating 'Simple' Deals: Avoiding Pitfalls in Buy-Side Transactions
Exclusivity Agreements: When and How to Use Them
Kicking off another post, this time focusing on exclusivity or no-shop provisions.
How are Lower Middle Market Companies Valued?
What is Adjusted EBITDA and an Add-back?
What is Working Capital and How Does it Work in M&A Transactions?
{M&A Process/5} Market Intelligence
Once engaged, Sierra Pacific Partners conducts a market study using proprietary databases to assess the company’s value, determine active buyers in the industry, and talk to those buyers to uncover how they view and weigh various value drivers
Understanding Indemnification Terms in M&A Transactions: Key Considerations for Buyers and Sellers
{M&A Process/4} Sell-side Preparation
Both prior to and following engagement, we’ll need information from the seller to assist with valuation, marketing, and diligence.
Maximizing Synergies in M&A: How Strategic Buyers Drive Higher Valuations
Most M&A participants know that strategics - whether a corporate buyer or a PE portfolio company (a hybrid strategic) - tend to value targets the most because of synergies. So, what goes into synergies and, more importantly, using them to drive purchase price?
{M&A Process/3} Different types of M&A sale processes
There are a number of ways to transfer a company depending on client goals and circumstances y or combination.
Deal Diary: How to Handle Minority and Marketability Discounts in Operating Agreements
Recently, while drafting an operating agreement for a surgery center, we used a formula-based redemption price with an appraisal option if contested. Should appraisers apply minority and marketability discounts?
M&A Deal Points | A Deep Dive on SaaS Valuation
We now turn to a final factor that quantifies elements from across the other factors: SaaS metrics.
Deciphering Deal Structures: Insights into M&A Consideration Mix
In M&A, the consideration mix or deal structure can be just as crucial, if not more so, than the headline purchase price for sellers. Earnouts, rollover equity, and seller notes don't always translate into expected cash returns.
Maximizing Business Value: Insights from M&A Advisors
In M&A, sellers often hold optimistic views on their business's value. Our role as advisors is to provide data-driven valuation advice. During a discussion on diligence with a client, we emphasized the need for focus and momentum in the sale process.
SaaS Valuation Demystified: Tips for Buyers and Sellers in the Market
Traditional SBA valuation metrics often fall short when applied to SaaS businesses due to their unique characteristics, such as huge total addressable markets and opportunities for explosive growth. This has created a market where business transfers command higher prices, attracting various buyers with ample funding sources.
{M&A Process/2} How we add value
Before embarking on an M&A process, many sellers think an investment banker or M&A advisor’s primary role is to find a buyer. In fact, post-closing surveys of sellers repeatedly show the opposite--that sellers view buyer sourcing as the least important part of what advisors do.
Success Comes at a Price - Cost of Capital
Founders considering an exit often approach Sierra Pacific Partners, having achieved success and raised capital for their ventures. Ultimately, a seller's capital structure and investor goals profoundly influence strategic alternatives in M&A transactions.
{M&A Process/1} Understanding our clients’ goals
In this 12-part mini series on the sell-side M&A process, we'll go over the general process you can expect working with with an M&A advisor, from pre-engagement to post-closing. Let's get started