Investment Bankers on the GT Securities platform specialize in providing sell-side advisory services for emerging and middle market businesses.
Bankers on our platform provide M&A sell-side advisory services to clients and companies of all types and sizes across a wide swath of industries, geographies, and market sectors, including:
- Having collectively completed, at GT Securities and prior firms, over 500 M&A sale processes and transactions, representative of an aggregate deal volume of greater than $10 Billion.
- Have completed transactions in 43 states, with financial and strategic buyers from around the country and across the world, managing the sale process and maximizing sale value for both family businesses and for private equity-backed companies
- With businesses in industries including financial services, software, and computer hardware, consumer products, distribution and logistics, gaming, healthcare, manufacturing, real estate, semiconductors, and many more
- In addition to extensive entrepreneurial, operational, private equity, and due diligence experience, bankers on our platform have, on average, provided investment banking sell-side advisory services to clients for more than 15 years
They work directly with clients to identify and maximize the most important factors that will drive a successful business sale, including:
- Preparing the management team and the company for the entire sale process, including the strategy to create offering materials and the development of a comprehensive confidential information memorandum, organizing due diligence into a comprehensive deal data room, with the overriding goals to develop a compelling message to enhance credibility as conversations with prospective acquirers are initiated and progress toward a transaction
- For the company, estimating its most likely sale price and value, most reasonable timeline for a transaction, most likely potential buyers, and the key factors that will increase the deal price and drive and maximize shareholder value in a transaction
- Identifying the key contacts at the right potential acquirers, both strategic and financial, and then connecting with them through a strategy based on a tailored, relationship-based approach
- Driving a disciplined approach to the buyer due diligence process, including both replying to and “triaging” the sometimes extensive buyer information requests, managing site visits, and working to minimize disruption to the company and management through the entire sales process
- Managing the deal auction and negotiating process, with the overriding goal of attaining for clients the highest possible transaction value in the shortest possible time
