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Did Borders Not Explore The Future?

February 11, 2011April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

I hate to tell you, “I Told you so.” But I told you so. Today’s Headline Breaking News: “Borders Bankruptcy Filing Expected as early as Monday or Tuesday. Borders Plans To Close about 200 stores.” “Movement in a new direction helps you find new cheese.” Everyone else was heading in…

Assess You Company’s Debt Capacity

November 18, 2010April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

If you are interested to refinance your company’s debt or get additional capital, theres is a fairly simple rule of thumb that can help you quickly gauge your financing alternatives and make sense of today’s lending environment. This white paper by Lantern Capital Advisors identifies the simple corporate finance rule…

Selling Your Company To Management

May 3, 2010April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Business owners often overlook selling their company to management as a possible exit strategy. But for solid companies with good cash flows, selling your company to management may yield a higher financial value for the owner and a much brighter future for the business, management, and the seller. Our latest…

Partner Buyout: An Opportunistic Way To Build More Equity Value

April 2, 2010April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Partner Buyout: An Opportunistic Way to Build More Equity Value. Management Buyout and Leveraged Buyouts financing processes can be orchestrated in the same way in order to help individuals buyout a partner or majority owner of a business. Partner buyouts can be financed on an all debt basis because the partner already has some equity in the…

Focus on Growing Cash Flows Not Just Revenue

March 24, 2010April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Several entrepreneurs with fast growing businesses told me they have recently made cost reductions in response to slowing business and the economy. One business owner told me, he and his CEO cut $600,000 of annual expense from their operating budget in 45 minutes! The more interesting thing was they all…

Shaken Economy Creates Management Buyout Opportunities

December 22, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Management Buyout Opportunities: In a shaky economy a logical strategy for management is to focus on just hanging on to the business you have. For proactive management teams and owners it can be a time to reconfigure the business or ownership in order to realize in greater benefits in the…

Creative But Little Known Source Of Debt Financing

November 28, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

High Growth companies (Gazelles) looking for financing often don't realize they may be able to finance their company with various forms of creative debt structures. This however is rarely debt you would find at your local bank. These more exotic forms of debt are provided in the capital markets by…

The New Get Rich Scheme: No Money Down!

November 2, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

I recently got a call from two people writing a book about buying companies and doing it with no money down. They wanted me to help people that read their book, do exactly that. After talking to them I looked around on the web and found several (paid) ads selling…

High Growth Companies In A Slow Growth Industry

June 20, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

One of our clients is a fast growing market research firm. They received an industry report from one of the gurus of the industry. Overall, revenues for leading market research companies were down slightly in 2008 and contracted by 1%. More interesting to us, was there were three companies that…

Investment Banking Fees Create Conflict Of Interest

May 13, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Yesterday we published a new article at CFO.com, which discusses how investment banking fees can corrupt the advice they give clients. The same day a report, in the WSJ cites issues of conflicts of interest regarding Goldman Sachs. Read our article titled, Investment Banking Fees Create Conflict of Interest White…

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