Corporate Finance

Private Placements of Structured Debt & Equity: Supported by its long-standing relationships with a broad range of lenders and investors, including leading financial institutions, mezzanine lenders, institutional equity investors, private equity investors, and venture capital firms, The Reid Group advises clients throughout all aspects of the capital raising process. This typically involves developing appropriate capital raising strategies, structuring the transaction, drafting financing and placement memoranda, identifying capital sources, managing due diligence efforts, negotiating final deal structure and terms, and managing the closing process.

Syndicated Bank Lending: Through its strong relationships with a range of financial institutions, The Reid Group structures and arranges senior and subordinated syndicated bank loans for its clients. We assume primary responsibility for managing the relationship between the company and the bank syndicate.

Mergers & Acquisitions: The Reid Group's strategic advisory services cover a range of transactions including management-led buyouts, leveraged buyouts, roll-ups, and strategic acquisitions. This typically involves development of appropriate acquisition criteria, identifying and contacting a core group of potential targets, leading the due diligence process, assisting in target evaluations, arranging the financing if needed, negotiating the final terms, and managing the closing process.

Workouts & Restructuring: The Reid Group offers advisory services to companies, creditors, and acquirers in financially distressed situations. Services include renegotiating existing debt, developing new capital structures, raising additional debt or equity capital, developing viable business plans, divesting assets, negotiating workout plans or plans of reorganization among debtors, creditors, and equity holders, and managing the debtor-creditor relationship.

Advice on Increasing Shareholder Value: The Reid Group offers advisory services focused on increasing shareholder value. We advise clients on developing business strategies that will help to increase economic profits, with particular attention paid to the cost of invested capital and alternatives to liberate value.

The Reid Group advises clients on developing risk-mitigating solutions for interest rate, currency, asset-liability, and business enterprise activities. Services include development and arrangement for execution of hedging strategies, creating structures to minimize cost of capital, and advising clients on structuring the risks and rewards associated with joint ventures and direct private investments.

The Reid Group advises clients on how to maximize the realizable values for major assets that they have determined to divest. Services include developing initial valuations, conducting up-front due diligence, preparing offering memoranda and other marketing documents, identifying and contacting potential acquirers, marketing the asset(s), facilitating buyer due diligence, negotiating the final terms, and managing the closing process.