| Bison
Advisors LLC provides retained or project
based financial advisory and business consulting services to
privately-held companies of $5 million to $50+ million in annual
revenues and portfolio companies sponsored by private equity
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 lower middle
market company management teams the type of high-quality advisory
resources that are typically made available to private equity
backed companies.
These services are provided to companies positioning themselves
for raising additional growth capital from third-party investors
or a potential change of control transaction as well as to
portfolio companies of private equity funds.
Services may include:
- Interim management assistance (CEO, COO, CFO,
Corporate Development, CMO, Controller, CIO, Board of Director
roles)
- Executive management recruitment and assessment
- Business development, joint venture/alliance
partnerships, and strategic planning
- Operational, profit improvement consulting,
and project management (including outsourcing strategies)
- Sales, marketing and brand development, and
competitive intelligence research
- 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:
- Special situation leasing programs
- Receivable warehouse and special purpose financing
- Corporate barter financing
- OPIC and EX-IM Bank trade and cross border
project financing
- Domestic and cross border working capital financing
- Intellectual property, contractual income,
and franchisee financing
- Short-to-medium-term corporate liquidity and
investment management
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