Strategic Advisory
Overview
We provide strategic advice based on our in-depth knowledge of your business, the industry, and the markets
We strive to understand your business and strategic priorities intimately. With this knowledge of your goals, strengths and opportunities, we can help you prepare for any future transactions.
Start a ConversationPreparation for Strategic Transaction
The best way to ensure a successful process is to be prepared for the sale. Depending on your needs and goals, we can help you act immediately or serve as a long-term partner. We’ve helped clients plan for their liquidity event or exit 3 months to over 5 years in advance.
How Republic Partners Adds Value
Strategic & Financial Readiness
- Establish objectives that are important to you, then build a strategy to meet them
- Recommend timing to market and create a timeline with varying alternatives that fits your goals
- Highlight changes and opportunities to enhance valuation, like reducing customer concentration, implementing operational best-practices across the organization, or adjusting organization structure
- Ensure soundness of financial reporting
Benefits
Leverage Expertise and Experience
With experience at top-tier management consulting and investment banking firms, our team has expertise in strategic development, corporate planning, M&A and financial markets. We have an intimate knowledge of the process and can help you determine what acquirers need and prepare you for exhaustive due diligence.
Access to Real Relationships
Because we focus on building long-term relationships, we have strong ties within the market and we can connect you to others to broaden your network.
Strategic Planning
Before you decide to acquire or sell businesses, it’s important to have a clear understanding of your strategic landscape and a plan for your future. We help you build a tactical and realistic path forward, months or years before your transaction.
How Republic Partners Adds Value
Strategic Development
- Assist in defining your company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats (SWOT)
- Identify strategic options and alternatives, whether it’s buying, selling, or planning for long-term growth
- Design and implement a customized path for your business and a process to get you where you want to be
Strategy Implementation
- Guide your senior management team in developing the optimal strategic plan
- Establish the process for executing the strategic plan
Benefits
Leverage Expertise & Experience beyond M&A and Finance
Our team has an array of experience at major corporations and at top-tier management consulting firms, specifically executing strategic planning. That means we have the analytical and communication skills to work with your senior management team, helping to position your company for its future.
Have a True Partner
We take the time to understand your business so we can represent you and act on future acquisition, divestiture, or sale opportunities. We measure our success on achieving your goals.
Financial Analysis
We can work with you to present in an organized fashion your historical financial performance and develop a budget and necessary financial projections for potential lenders, investors or acquirors.
How Republic Partners Adds Value
Program Development & Management
- Develop a financial planning process for your future transaction goals
- Obtain executive approval and ensure a cohesive, collective path forward
Financial Analysis & Projections
- Collect projected customer and operational information, data, and assumptions required for producing valid projections
- Prepare financial projections and accompanying explanations to empower your management team to make their own financial decisions required by lenders and investors
Benefits
Plan Effectively and Efficiently
We have the expertise in financial analysis and planning to help you prepare for your future transactions. By choosing to partner with us, you can obtain the expertise and support that your business needs without adding fixed overhead costs.
An Extension of Your Team
By learning about your business, goals, and strengths, we can represent you more effectively in the market. We constantly search for opportunities that can prepare you for future acquisitions and/or divestitures. With our support, you and your team can continue to focus on day-to-day activities.
Board Advisory
We provide an unbiased perspective on strategic alternatives, valuation and market conditions. Acting as a sounding board, we help you make decisions with your long-term in mind and identify potential opportunities to add value to your board.
Company boards regularly seek advice from investment bankers in order to:
- Learn how finance professionals view the company and their industry
- Understand the M&A activity that affects their industry and potentially their company
- Gain insight into the capital markets
- Assess market value and strategic alternatives for their company on an ongoing basis
How Republic Partners Adds Value
Market Intelligence & Insights
- Bring the viewpoint of the financial and investment communities for your board’s consideration
- Provide a depth of knowledge on the impact of M&A activities, financial markets, and business trends
- Advise on the use of acquisitions and/or divestitures to achieve corporate objectives
- Provide assessment of the company’s market value and strategic alternatives
Benefits
An Advisory Partner
Rather than focus on imminent transactions, we value giving objective advice and building relationships to help you attain your goals. By building relationships, we can better serve as your partner in the long term and also be better prepared once the time is right for a transaction.
Merger Integration
Closing the transaction is the commencement of a more important process. You need to have a plan on what comes next in order to capture the benefits of a merger. As an investment banking firm with experience in merger integration, we can help you forge ahead with your future goals.
A well-executed merger integration program will facilitate:
- Smooth, continuous operations from Day 1
- Retention of customers and key employees
- Rapid financial integration and capturing of synergy
- A united front to customers, regulatory agencies, and financial markets
How Republic Partners Adds Value
Program Management
- Helping you plan before the integration process, making sure your management and leadership are prepared for the activities ahead
- Providing a tailored program with tactical steps to achieving a successful merger integration
Supporting Throughout the Process
- Reporting to the executive team any challenges and/or roadblocks we find as the integration efforts begin
- Recommending resolutions to those challenges and/or roadblocks
Benefits
Confidence in a Trusted Partner
To be successful in integrating an acquisition, you must be able to understand both organizations involved in the transaction. We can provide you with the insights gained during the transaction process from both the acquirer or the acquired.
Insights from Merger Integration Experience
Our team has the experience of executing merger integration programs. We’re familiar with how to deploy a process that helps you retain employees and customers and captures the near-term and long-term benefits of the acquisition.