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The Rise of “Dequity”

August 21, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Financing Innovation: The Rise of “Dequity” I was talking with a banker the other day and he used a term that I hadn’t heard before but made a lot of sense. He said, they make ‘dequity’ investments. What he meant was they make loans, but the risk they take and the way…

What’s your EBITDA?

June 1, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

What’s your EBITDA? When I give speeches I like to wrap up the presentation by doing a group exercise where the participants have to look at a simple set of financial statements and calculate a Company’s EBITDA (earnings before taxes depreciation and amortization). This is the most commonly used financial…

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Process Change

May 9, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Business Process Change The Value of a Business Process Change: When thinking about strategies that significantly increase enterprise value, our minds tend to immediately think of strategies that grow revenues like adding a new product, investing more in sales resources or acquiring another…

MBO Management Buyout: PE vs No-PE

February 27, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

MBO Management Buyout: PE vs No-PE I have a client pursuing a MBO management buyout of his company from its public parent. As we assessed different management buyout financing options, he had a big decision to make. Did he want to partner with a private equity firm (PE) or do…

What’s Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked Financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

December 12, 2022September 21, 2023 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Available Cash: What's Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked FINANCIAL KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Available Cash? I recently got asked by a CFO a question, I thought worth sharing. "How much cash should we maintain on our balance sheet in our business’? I believe its good for companies to have…

Owner Exit Strategies

January 24, 2022April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Owners of businesses typically dream of going public or performing an IPO, even though less than 1% of businesses ever achieve this. However, for the remaining 99% of businesses out there, there are multiple viable options that owners should consider and evaluate when determining their business exit strategy. Ideally, owners should…

Merchant Cash Advances (MCA) Deceiving Math

March 29, 2021September 3, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

A lender recently told me a story about how entrepreneurs often get deceived by the cost of MCA (Merchant Cash Advances) loans. As an example, one owner recently mentioned he was about to get a $121,000 loan that required the company to pay back $165,000 in 9 months and the company…

Case Study In Growth: Using revenue based financing (RBF) to drive greater growth and enterprise value

October 8, 2019August 31, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

A 20 year old software company was working to develop some exciting new products. Management had scoped out its future features and functions and shared their solution concepts with potential customers who showed strong interest. The challenge was it would cost the company $1 million beyond their free cash flow to complete…

Corporate Finance Advisory is what we do!

March 13, 2019July 12, 2022 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

We receive a lot of inquiries, but today one came through that I immediately replied to. First of all, I love it when women reach out to Lantern, and it warms my heart that it came from a high school student. Lantern Capital Advisors specializes in corporate finance advisory services…

Revenue Based Financing: Refinance Your Merchant Cash Advance Loans

February 25, 2019August 31, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

Over the years, we have had fast growing companies come to us looking for help both getting new capital and refinancing (out) merchant cash advance loans that they had taken out. In one instance, a company needed to make payroll by the end of the week and had no money in…

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