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At Kudzu Ventures, we go beyond seeking the match of a business buyer and seller. Instead, Kudzu Advisors manages all M&A activities, acting as your trusted intermediary during the transaction, with the main goal of helping to increase efficiency and value for all partners during the M&A process.
To do so, our M&A services include:
• Business Valuation
• Preparation of a Pitch Book
• Negotiation of the Sales Price
• Due Diligence Services
• Resolution of any issue that may arise during the transactionKudzu Ventures specializes in M&A activities such as the merger between companies, acquisition of one company by another, divestitures of subsidiaries and debt and equity financing. Our firm charges and receives a fee based on the enterprise valuation of the selling company.
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Profiling, Targeting and Executing
Kudzu Advisors Buy-Side Advisory Services are successful due to our dedicated time spent alongside you, your firm, or your family office to ensure our understanding of the strategic objectives that will maximize your risk-adjusted return, understanding your industry and sub-industry segments and understanding profiles of targets you are interested in pursuing. Once identified, our Advisors will present a number of opportunities for evaluation.
When a target or group of targets is identified, our Advisors will make resources available to your internal or external transaction team to aid with diligence and transitions execution.
While not every opportunity that Kudzu Advisors introduces will be a propriety transaction, we do work to identify and maintain a steady bench of off-market transitions for you to analyze.
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The Future of Your Business
When selling or recapitalizing your business or firm, it is important to have the proper advisement for maximum risk-adjusted return. At Kudzu Advisors, our Sell-Side success is measured by only one metric: you achieving your desired outcome – both financially and with the deeper understanding that you have done the best thing for all stakeholders, including your family, your employees, your customers and your legacy.
Our Process
Education
Kudzu Advisors will provide dynamic valuation insight for your business by defining and outlining the options available with respect to the valuation, and ultimate sell, of your business. It is our goal to ensure your full understanding of the sales process, so you are best positioned to make a well-informed decision about your path to a successful transaction, or any alternatives.
Preparation
Kudzu Advisors will begin by putting itself in the shoes of possible buyers by understanding what makes your business or firm unique, by understanding competitive barriers and by forecasting what a reasonable future looks like.
Choices
Sale – An outright sale of your business to a strategic buyer represents a full exit for the ownership group, creating full and immediate liquidity, allowing owners to redeploy capital to another available investment alternatives, including retirement.
Recapitalization – A recapitalization event is best-suited for those owners that have built equity in their franchise but are having difficulty generating enough cash to take advantage of growth opportunities – organic or via acquisition – in the marketplace.
This Sell-Side option can help owners create current liquid capital, allowing them to participate in future growth through continued equity ownership.
After three to five years, there is potential of a second sale process, when the existing financial partner exists the business.
Diligence, Execution and Closing
Kudzu Advisors understands all marketplace alternatives available to you thanks to the time spent alongside you and your team to understand the innerworkings of your company.
Once these alternatives are identified, we will help you navigate the diligence and closing process through negotiations around non-disclosure agreements, setting up a data room, negotiations of letters of intent, purchase agreements and closing.