Hiram Capital's merger and acquisition advisory practice continues the natural progression of merchant banking professionals. The firm provides clients with guidance relating to identifying, structuring, negotiating and financing potential transactions. Our advisory services provide companies with strategic growth alternatives that enhance earnings and build shareholder equity value. The firm represents international buyers or sellers in all aspects of M&A engagements, helping ensure a smooth process, minimizing overall costs, and optimizing deal structure and prices paid or received. The firm’s M&A advisory services include structuring and executing strategic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, takeover defenses, valuations, and fairness opinions. Hiram Capital provides advisory services on a wide variety of transactions guiding clients through every phase of the M&A process, from the initial step of identifying a target through the negotiation, due diligence, financing and closing of the transaction.

Hiram Capital is active across the full range of M&A advisory roles including:

Cross-border Advisory
As a globally oriented merchant banking firm Hiram Capital’s niche area of expertise within middle market M&A advisory is through cross-border engagements. The firm’s network of international resources and our ‘single firm’ operating model allow us to offer clients a seamless cross-border advisory service and the global perspective that accompanies it. We have executed transactions for clients around the globe – in each case, as in countries closer to our home offices, managing transactions and giving advice with an objectivity that more product-oriented firms cannot.

Sell-Side Advisory
Leveraging our independence and lack of conflict, we are strongly positioned to serve in sell side advisory roles. Acting for target companies, special board committees or selling shareholders, we can operate at the heart of any process, assist in negotiations and give impartial and objective advice about the merits of bids received. Negotiated and auction based sales ensure that clients maximize value.

Buy-side Advisory
We also have a strong record of successful buy side advisory assignments. We advise principally (but not exclusively) on stock or asset purchases of or by middle-market companies. As an independent firm, we can give objective advice about securing the target asset or company and a truly independent view on the value of the opportunity being considered.

Leveraged Buyouts
Hiram Capital assists investors in negotiating, financing and executing leveraged buyouts. We provide valuation recommendations, structuring alternatives, financing options, and representation in negotiating terms of the transaction. In select transactions, Hiram Capital through it merchant funds will either co-invest or will act as lead investor.

Management Buyouts
Hiram Capital assists management teams in negotiating, financing, and executing management buyouts. We provide valuation recommendations, deal structure recommendations, financing alternatives, and representation in negotiating terms of the transaction. In select transactions, Hiram Capital will co-invest with management.

Merger Advisory
Hiram Capital is well qualified to assist clients on merger transactions given the long experience of its partners and professionals, along with an assurance of total discretion and its lack of conflicting interests.

Special Advisory
Various advisory work that we undertake does not fit a conventional ‘transaction’ definition. We believe that Hiram Capital’s independence, experience, expertise and discretion position us well for special advisory assignments.