DHGCF has extensive experience providing mergers and acquisitions advice to owners and shareholders of middle market companies. We provide our clients with high-quality investment banking services, typically only available to larger companies from full service financial institutions. DHGCF’s merger and acquisition practice includes sell side and targeted buy side services.
Our role in merger and acquisition assignments is to:
- Supply market presence and knowledge
- Enhance credibility of transaction process
- Provide analytical support
- Manage transaction process
- Assist with negotiations
- Act as intermediary.
Sell-Side Services
DHGCF adds significant value during a sell-side assignment through the coordination and execution of a well-managed marketing process. We structure each process to meet the client's specific goals. With significant experience managing sell-side and divestiture processes for corporations, private equity groups and individual business owners, DHGCF provides knowledge and appropriate resources throughout each stage of a transaction. A professionally managed process creates a competitive environment that typically produces an increase in value and improved terms that can greatly exceed the cost of our services.
We strive for the following level of service for clients who utilize DHGCF’s Sell-Side Services:
- Close the transaction in a timely manner
- Achieve the best offer available in the market
- Maximize their strategic and financial options
- Minimize disruption to the company during the process
- Maintain strategic options and flexibility.
Targeted Buy-Side Services
DHGCF provides buy side advisory services in targeted situations for clients in structuring, negotiating and closing strategic acquisitions of companies, divisions and product lines. We are intimately involved from start to finish, from concept through completion of a specific project. We aim to learn as much as possible about our client's products, markets and industry to develop the most appropriate strategy to meet their objectives. DHGCF provides the experience necessary to complete acquisitions on favorable terms.
We aim to achieve the following goals for clients who utilize DHGCF’s Buy-Side Services:
- Negotiate the best offer available for the transaction
- Take full advantage of their strategic and financial options
- Limit disruption to the company during the process
- Close the transaction in a timely manner.