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Our advisory services focus on businesses that have reached a certain stage of maturity and growth. Our services also include mergers and acquisitions, as well as OTC BB listings. In order to support private fundraisings and identify business partners we develop business & marketing plans as well as private placement memorandums. 
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North America
Is your company investment ready?
Ben Hedenberg | Detroit
More capital is available than there are... |
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Global Market
Building a new brand name
Elsa Papadopoulou | Toronto
Manufacturing companies place now... |
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Moral Opinion
Social and financial streamlining
Mistakes to be avoided and lessons to be learned. The world as we know it, has already started to change before are very own eyes in 2006... |
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Raising Equity Strategy
Focus on Sweat Equity
The best businesses in recent entrepreneurial times are those that have been started with little or no money... |
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North America
Opportunities in Medical Device
Ben Hedenberg | Toronto
The medical device market is estimated to be worth US$27 billion by 2014, according to MarketsandMarkets.
Medical devices form one of the largest industries in the healthcare sector with an estimated size of $250 billion in 2009 and a average growth rate of 7%. The industry has been outsourcing medical device manufacturing services for almost a decade now. This trend has brought about huge profit margins, which has attracted many new players. Outsourcing has helped medical device manufacturers reduce product development cost by 10% to 30%.
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Social and financial streamlining
Mistakes to be avoided and lessons to be learned.
The world as we know it, has already started to change before are very own eyes in 2006, when (put the first big bad financial news that made headlines at the end of 2006). But for those in the financial and industrial sector who are equipped with sincerity and wittiness to acknowledge how the natural law of “what goes up must go down” works, this is not surprising or unexpected.
Imagine a static and predictable world that remains so for ever. Some may think, “secure- comfortable and safe”. I would rather say, such a world would lack all prospects for progress, and be short of visionaries and pioneers. There you have it. When our financial and social structure collapses, it is the fearless, the bold, the creative and the futurists who will make the news.
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Raising New Equity 2011
Over the next 12 months the majority of investors will be looking to maintain their allocations to private equity, with 19% looking to increase, and 6% looking to decrease their commitment levels. This indicates that for the majority of investors the level of new commitments that they will be making will be dependent upon the distributions that they receive from their existing investments and their need to recycle this capital in order to maintain their allocations. In the longer term over a third of investors are looking to increase allocations (36%) indicating that fundraising will be set to increase more substantially as we move into the second half of 2011.
M&A activity in the middlemarket
M&A activity in the middle market showed a meaningful pickup in 2Q 2010 as both deal volume and purchase price multiples expanded compared to 1Q 2010. According to data collected by GF Data Resources, the average purchase price multiple increased to 5.6 times in 2Q 2010, up from 5.2 times in both 1Q 2010 and 2H 2009. While valuations expanded, so too did equity contributions. According to GFDR, equity contributions comprised 58.7% of 2Q10 capital structures while senior and sub-debt capital only made up 32.8% and 8.4% of deal structures.
The climb in transaction multiples seen this past quarter is expected to continue into 2011.
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US 2011 market outlook
Will small cap tech buyouts pick up in 2011
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