| Bison Advisors LLC provides retained or project based financial advisory and business consulting services to privately-held companies of $5 million to $100+ million in annual revenues and portfolio companies sponsored by private investment funds. Drawing upon the broad experience within the Bison team and its Advisors Group, Bison Advisors can provide a range of consulting and advisory resources. Bison provides middle market company management teams with the type of high-quality advisory resources that are typically made available to larger private and public companies and investment groups.
These services are provided to companies and investor owned or controlled portfolio companies positioning themselves for raising additional growth capital, preparing for an acquisition or a series of acquisitions restructuring their operations and finances to increase liquidity, or a potential change of control transaction.
Services may include:
- Interim management assistance (CEO, COO, CFO, CRO, Corporate Development, CMO, Controller, CIO, Board of Director roles)
- Executive management recruitment and assessment
- Business development, joint venture/alliance partnerships, and strategic planning
- Operational, turnaround and profit improvement consulting, and project management (including outsourcing strategies)
- Working capital and cash management optimization
- Analysis of business metrics, financial performance, and capital structure
- Review of financial budgeting and reporting processes, policies, and systems
- Risk management assessment
As an additional resource for our clients, Bison has a close affiliation with the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, widely recognized as one of the premier business schools in the country. Through Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, Bison has access to faculty, researchers, and student teams on a project-by-project basis to assist in functional areas such as marketing, operations, corporate finance, business strategy, and organizational structure.
Specialized Financing Solutions
Bison has affiliations with specialized finance companies that can provide creative solutions for difficult-to-finance asset classes and unusual domestic or cross border investment/project financing or refinancing needs.
Financing solutions may
include:
- Leasing programs
- Corporate barter financing
- OPIC and EX-IM Bank trade and cross border
project financing
- Domestic and cross border working capital financing
- Intellectual property financing
- Short-to-medium-term corporate liquidity and investment management
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