Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC - the core meaning and essence of Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC.
Selling to Strategics – generating maximum multiples of expected value when planning and executing the sale of our clients’ companies to international strategic buyers. Success to Significanc through Selling to Strategics - is a reflection of our firm’s mission to help our clients transform their business success into personal significance.
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Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC was established in 1995 by a group of successful lawyers, former CEOs and corporate executives. Our experience and market feedback suggested that mid-market private businesses were being poorly served by mainstream investment banks and private equity firms.
We bring the principles of strategy and marketing to the M&A equation (vs a pure financial focus) – helping to identify strategic and competitive business drivers, and then effectively positioning and promoting a company in the global market, leveraging our extensive relationships.
Through our global relationships, world-class team and proven deal process, we bring international strategic buyers and investors to the table, generating larger, more competitive, multi-bidder soft auctions to maximize value for our clients. Outstanding results are achieved, often with industry-leading multiples of expected values.
We also add value by bringing strategic and targeted opportunities to buyers and investors internationally, creating a win-win for both the strategic buyer and seller.
Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC is a private, non-conflicted, non-bureaucratic, pure-play M&A advisor – with extensive global reach, access to strategic investors, and committed to generating optimum results for our clients.
Our Experience
Why Selling to Strategic Buyers Maximizes Value for You
Our efficient and flexible deal process supports quickly identifying strategic value drivers that will maximize the value of your business in the eyes of buyers and investors. We achieve outstanding results for our mid-market clients, often generating industry-leading multiples of expected value when selling to international strategic buyers vs pure financial investors.
Commitment to Confidentiality
Our proven deal process encompasses strict protocols to ensure complete confidentiality leading up to, during and after any transaction in which we are involved (which is why we don’t do tombstones). Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC is non-conflicted and our objectives are in full alignment with our clients’ preferred outcomes.
Established in New York, Minnesota in 1995, Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC exclusively represents smaller middle market businesses for sale. Our clients typically have sales between $10 million and $150 million.
Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC’s principals are highly seasoned and have completed over 80 sell-side and 20 buy-side assignments in the last 20 years.
Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC Market Niche:
Traditional Service & Manufacturing Companies
Sales between $10 million and $150 million
EBITDA from $2 million to $15 million
Transaction Values between $10 million – $150 million
Premium service, laser focus, limited clientele
Why Hire Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC as your M&A Advisor?
The M&A market for smaller middle market firms is highly inefficient. We’ve often seen offers for selling companies vary 2:1. That means the lowest bid is just 1/2 of the highest offer! It is also a market that is historically not well served by the large investment banks or regional firms since the sale of smaller business requires more marketing and presentation effort than those firms are willing to allow. Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC works with a limited client base to ensure that each transaction receives individualized attention. Therefore, every transaction we work on is of critical importance. Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC’s principals have years of experience operating in the middle market. We have long-standing relationships with buyers that seek businesses in our niche size range. These relationships and focus provide superior results for our clients since they may not otherwise “break through” to gain buyer interest. Larger M&A shops work on many transactions simultaneously thereby forcing their clients to compete with one another for investor attention. Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC avoids this pitfall by focusing on a limited number of engagements.
The Sale Process
Analyzing your company and reaching an agreement on a potential valuation range prior to moving forward.
Developing a marketing strategy tailored to your needs and designed to maximize the value of the business.
Preparing a confidential information memorandum for distribution to prospective purchasers and providers of capital.
Working with Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC extensive database to pre-qualify and screen the most motivated potential buyers.
Actively managing all contact with prospective purchasers.
Negotiating with and selecting the final candidates for the transaction.
Closing the transaction. Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC principals’ years of experience are employed to quickly resolve a wide range of business, legal and financial issues.
At Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC, each engagement is characterized by our integrity, teamwork and attention to detail. We bring a national track record of success driven by our continued strong relationships with capital providers and worldwide purchasers.
At Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC, we offer a comprehensive range of advisory services to help you achieve your goals. We help you create, transform and protect value. From finding ways to finance growth to understanding how to manage risk and regulation; from identifying opportunities to optimise operations, to getting the best from talent, our global network provides the expert support you need to thrive in a fast changing world.
Create value
Explore your strategic growth options, advise on and project manage the chosen solution
Establish the true commercial potential of the business you are looking to acquire
Apply experience, determination and pragmatism to bring deals safely through to conclusion
Deliver valuation support during transactions and disputes and expert advice in support of regulatory and administrative matters
Diagnose and address underperformance, and devise workable solutions that maximise value and deliver a sustainable recovery
Help you understand how best to protect and maximise value.
Transform value
Define strategic goals and formulate solutions that keep you ahead of disruptive change
Help you sustain and finance growth, manage risk and talent, optimise operations and protect value
Improve financial processes and systems, reduce costs and transform your finance function
Remove the burden of back office operations and compliance challenges, enabling you to focus on growth
Deliver systematic improvements across people, processes and technology, right through the supply chain
Engage, specify and deliver scalable technology solutions
Help you make better use of increasingly large amounts of data, using tools and analysis to transform decision-making processes.
Protect value
Implement effective and reliable governance and compliance procedures
Help you understand and manage risk and seek an appropriate balance between risk and opportunities
Develop systems to prevent fraud and corruption
Assess cyber risk and help you manage it by improving culture, technologies and processes
Provide a rapid, practical response to get you operating securely again as fast as possible in the event of a security incident.
Staying ahead of disruptive change
Powerful forces such as globalisation and rapid technological change are disrupting traditional business models. By working with Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC, you'll better understand these forces and their impact. We can formulate solutions to keep you ahead of disruptive change.
We offer a full suite of services to address the biggest challenges businesses face across any sector or global market: sustaining and financing growth, managing risk and talent, optimising operations and protecting value.
Strategy & performance improvement
We deliver strategy development and performance improvement services at every stage of your growth journey.
Financial management
We can help you improve your financial processes and systems, and transform the finance function so you can focus on informing decision makers and enhance business understanding.
Productivity improvement
We deliver systematic improvements across people, processes and technology right through the supply chain.
Technology strategy & management
We engage, specify and deliver scalable solutions across the business, including finance, the supply chain, human resource functions and cyber security.
Human capital
We support businesses with the strategy part of the human capital challenge, from organisation design to training and managing cultural change.
Change and programme management
We deliver large-scale transformation programmes, such as ERP deployment and post-merger integration, and ensure that change is fully integrated and sustainable.
Robust and commercial valuation advice
For organisations involved in a transaction or a dispute, or embarking on restructuring, the value of the business involved and its assets is always an important commercial consideration.
Our valuation specialists blend technical expertise with a pragmatic outlook to deliver support during transactions, restructuring and disputes.
We also provide robust commercial independent advice on regulatory and administrative matters – valuing businesses, listed and unlisted securities, complex financial instruments and tangible and intangible assets.
With market-leading teams in all the key financial centres, we are perfectly positioned to advise you on complex, cross-border valuations.
Bid support
We deliver bid support services throughout the acquisition process and are committed to adding value at every stage.
Transactions
An independent view on value for mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and proposed financial structures.
Tax
Third-party valuations to enable directors to meet their fiduciary duties and to support proposed tax treatments.
Share option schemes
Schemes for employees and directors, with specialist advice on structuring and valuing such schemes.
Fund administration
We provide third-party valuations for investment funds to support periodic reporting of net asset values or to enable the transfer of assets.
Financial reporting
We get valuations to help consolidate newly acquired businesses into group accounts, including breaking out recognisable intangible assets from goodwill.
Valuations to support asset-backed lending decisions
We provide valuations to support asset-backed financing, including valuing shares and intangible assets, and providing periodic valuations of assets to confirm that the terms of the loan agreement are being met.
Dispute resolution
We offer valuation support for breach of contract, intellectual property disputes, negligence, lost opportunity, matrimonial disputes or where an expert determination is required. We act as independent experts in courts or at arbitration tribunals.
Our member firm IFRS advisers can help you navigate the complexity of the Standards so you can focus your time and effort on running your business.
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), are a set of global accounting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board for the preparation of public company financial statements. With well over 100 countries using them, they are fast becoming the global accounting language.
Using IFRSs can help increase the quality, comparability and transparency of your financial information. Applying them correctly will increase your company's credibility and improve access to credit and investment opportunities.
The Standards are very detailed and technical. To the untrained eye, they can appear hard to navigate. But at Ramsdell-Mattison & Company LLC, we have people who are very well versed in their intricacies and can translate them into language that you can understand and apply to your financial statements.
Growing businesses need strong tax management to meet current and future tax liabilities and we can help you achieve this, whatever challenges you face.
Many businesses worldwide are eager to better coordinate and outsource their compliance processes. Our trusted teams can prepare corporate tax files and ruling requests, support you with deferrals, accounting procedures and legitimate tax benefits.
By using bespoke software, we offer a transparent service within your control that can be tailored to your individual business needs.
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