A mid market investment bank providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services

Grenadier Park values its reputation for professionalism & integrity

and believes these qualities to be essential to gaining the trust required to be a valued investment banker. All discussions conducted by Grenadier Park adhere to these values.

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CHICAGO:
ONE MAGNIFICENT MILE
980 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, SUITE 1400 CHICAGO, IL 60611

TORONTO:
FIRST CANADIAN PLACE 100 KING STREET W. , SUITE 5700 TORONTO, ON, CANADA M5X 1C7

msnider@grenadierpark.com
(866) 766-3590

Services

Buy Side

Grenadier Park’s acquisition advisory services utilize the highest quality financial models to provide its clients with quant-based valuations for all prospective acquisition targets (“Targets”). Our clients typically engage us to conduct a pro-active acquisition searches, normally in industry consolidation mandates where we leverage our extensive industry knowledge, contacts, databases and research capabilities to surface all material acquisition prospects. Our dealmaking capabilities combine sophisticated financial analysis and the soft people skills essential in transaction dynamics to build trust with acquisition candidates, who recognize they are dealing with high quality professionals. Typical buy-side mandates include the following services:

  • Identifying & approaching all Targets, positioning our client as the best buyer in the market, & determining which Targets are interested in exploring an exit option;

  • Where a Target is interested in a potential sale, gathering & analyzing all relevant information, and preparing a tailored DCF financial model (IS, BS, CF, Cap Ex replacement schedules, etc.) to determine the approximate value range for the business;

  • Drafting a proposal to the Target, either in the form of a Letter of Intent or Indication of Interest, outlining basic terms of a potential transaction;

  • Advising throughout the due diligence and legal documentation processes to facilitate a closing of the Transaction. We are highly skilled on settling customary deal issues and are experts at negotiating favorable deal terms;

  • Preparing Executive Committee and Board Presentation materials for approval of the Transaction.


Every sale mandate is unique and depends on the needs and objectives of our client. Grenadier Park custom designs each sale process to take into account factors such as the client’s time frame & expectations, the number and types of parties to be given the opportunity to buy the business, the performance of the business through the process, market factors, and other personal or unique considerations.

Although each process is unique, Grenadier Park executes all sale mandates with:

  • Ongoing hands-on attention from our senior professionals

  • The utmost confidentiality, to best preserve & protect our client’s relationships with its customers, employees, and suppliers

  • Extensive industry & buyer research to ensure we understand our client & it’s value proposition to interested parties

  • An understanding of the key financial & other valuation considerations to advise our client and communicate with the buyers

  • an understanding of our client, its growth prospects & the defensibility of its market position to effectively communicate this understanding to the buyers to maximize value

  • A process where we minimize management’s time and distractions from buyers

  • Creativity and negotiation savvy to share transaction synergies, and structure a transaction that best meets the client’s needs.


Sell Side

Grenadier Park understands the opportunities and challenges facing family-owned companies as they address the operating requirements of their business and the evolving, and sometimes divergent, interests of their family shareholders. We realize that human dimensions are often paramount in aligning family objectives with those of the business, whether the issue at hand is selecting a successor to manage the family business, or providing liquidity to a family member not directly involved in the business.

We recognize that family businesses have many constitutuencies. They include family members who are actively involved in managing the business, family members who rely on their ownership position in the business as a significant source of their current income or personal wealth, non-family managers and employees, customers, suppliers and the local community. Our goal is to help families achieve unanimity among these constituencies as they embark on strategic initiatives to grow, recapitalize or sell their business.

We address a number of critical questions in helping family businesses sort through important strategic and shareholder decisions, including:

  • How much is my business really worth?

  • Is now a good time to be thinking about selling my business?

  • How can I retire with no family member to replace me?

  • Can I sell my company and keep an ownership stake?


Family-
Owned
Businesses

“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.”

– Mark Cuban

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