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Exit Planning Through an Investment Banker’s Lens

Focus Investment Banking

Clean Up the Financials Five years of clear, consistent books build trustno formal audit needed, just detail. Consistently book expenses to the appropriate line item. These are called addbacks, and are extremely important to valuation. ’ Youve likely spent 30 to 40 years building your current assets and net worth.

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How Mike Lampert Grew New England Truck Center Through Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

Mike Lampert: Right now our main focus, I mean we do towing heavy truck repair, we build and sell tow trucks. Chandler Kohn: Are you keeping the same logos on the building or are you rebranding? Even if they have like we go and get them a a good offer, they’re really concerned to make sure that sign stays on the building.

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M&A Blog #17 – valuation (Comparable Company)

Francine Way

As I mentioned in my valuation preparation post , Comparable Company is a valuation method that uses metrics of other similar businesses (same industry, size, geography, valuation multiples, etc.) Building the proforma income statement, proforma balance sheet, and Free Cash Flow to Firm (FCFF).

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M&A Blog #19 – valuation (Leveraged Buy Out - LBO)

Francine Way

Thus far, we have discussed three common valuation methods that most strategic and financial acquirers use when valuing a company for acquisitions or investments. This current post about Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) is about a valuation method used by a very specific type of financial acquirer: private equity (PE) firms.

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M&A Blog #16 – valuation (Discounted Cash Flow)

Francine Way

As I mentioned in my last post, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) is a valuation method that uses free cash flow projections, a discount rate, and a growth rate to find the present value estimate of a potential investment. Build proforma income statement and balance sheet. Derive Free Cash Flow to Firm (FCFF).

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02-09-2024 Newsletter: Intention to Lateral?

OfficeHours

The Lateral Process The biggest piece of advice I have for current banking analysts looking to lateral is to actively build your network. Given that we were mainly doing sell-sides at the EB, a lot of the analysis work was valuation as well as positioning the company and helping the management team with the presentations.

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Buy Side M&A Blog Series - Vol 7 - Valuing The Target

RKJ Partners

In our latest blog installment, we define and outline the key elements involved in valuing a target company. What is Valuation? Valuation can be simply defined as the process of assigning an estimated dollar amount or range to the worth of an item, good, or service.

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