Chris Risey, Author at Financing Gazelles

Another Exit Planning Option: Sell To Management

March 27, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Internal Management Buyout: Another Exit Planning Option: Sell to Management The one exit planning strategy that most often gets overlooked is an internal management buyout but it’s an approach that has several advantages that owners should seriously consider. This post is a very short explanation of 1) how an internal…

Growing by Acquisition: A key factor that drives successful acquisitions

February 15, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Growing By Acquisiton: A Key Factor That Drives Successful Acquisitions. When targeting an acquisition it’s pretty easy to get lost in the numbers. After all, financial analysis is critical for acquisition financing, valuing the acquisition and seeing how the Company can add financial or enterprise value to the current business.…

What Drives Up Multiples in Enterprise Value?

February 5, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: What Drives up Multiples? Chris Risey Last newsletter, I provided a short (as I could) explanation of how to calculate enterprise value (EV) and why EV is an important topic for internal planning, valuing private company acquisitions, management buyouts and partner buyouts. A common follow-up question I get related to…

Calculating Enterprise Value: Corporate Financial Planning

January 10, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning and Calculating Enterprise Value Calculating Enterprise Value: A key aspect to corporate financial planning is looking beyond just driving revenue growth to ensure the Company is growing its value. There are multiple ways to value a business and they are all academically correct; however, there is one methodology,…

Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer – Get Quality Financial Projections!

October 27, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer - Management Buyout Consulting Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer: Provide Multi-Year Financial Projections: Owners of growing companies often get approached by prospective buyers, even when they are not looking to sell. Suddenly, they are faced with a leveraged buyout from a single buyer. But owners that engage…

Get More Capital From Your Bank - Example

Getting More From Your Bank – Example

September 27, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Getting More From Your Bank - Example In the last post, I made the point that if you want more capital from your bank and they won’t give it you, then then go out and get financing proposals from another bank and your existing bank is likely to step up…

Getting More Capital Out of Your Bank

August 25, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Getting More Capital Out of Your Bank Growing companies often struggle to get enough capital to grow the way they want. Its not uncommon for business owners to wine and dine their banker then ask for a credit increase and be denied. A way to change that dynamic is to…

Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners

June 7, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Partner Buyout: Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners I was recently asked if I could help a company develop a valuation methodology for their business so that if one partner wanted to buyout the other, they would already have an agreed up on formula valuing…

How Do You and Your Team Use Corporate Financial Planning?

May 27, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: How Do You and Your Team Use Corporate Financial Planning? Do you have a financial planning process that improves your business planning process? There are numerous ways to apply corporate financial planning to drive more growth and value in your business. If you want help or…

Financing Challenges: How We Helped a Client Buy His Division From The Owner

April 24, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Management Buyout Financing Challenges: How Lantern Capital Advisors helped a client buy his division from the owner. Situation: A divisional manager wanted to buy his division from the owner who was having financing challenges with the bank. How Lantern Capital Advisors helped execute the management buyout: Lantern helped the manager…

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