Ascend Strategic Partners Overview

$0-$500,000
Est Annual Revenue

Company Details

There are many options available today for owners - it just depends on your goals and your company's position and readiness to tap into the M&A marketplace. We are here to help you access your needs and opportunities and then determine the best solution for your situation using the Ascend Difference to deliver the following services:

Partial Sale - A great vehicle for you to diversify wealth, fund growth and/or bring in operational expertise to help take your company to the next level. This provides an excellent opportunity for owners to obtain substantial liquidity and reduce risk today while maintaining upside opportunity through a "second bite of the apple" with a future transaction tomorrow. Structures vary, including minority, majority and typically include some level of debt financing (leveraged buyouts).
Complete Sale - Whether you are looking to retire or just move on to a new venture, we can help. However, a "Complete Sale" today doesn't mean simply handing over the keys. Except in very specific situations, this requires strong secondary management teams, your commitment to a transition period, and sustainable earnings and growth. Strong detailed employment agreements and earn-outs are common to provide protection and incentives to both the seller and buyer.
Securing Debt - Using debt to fund growth can be a great alternative to selling equity. Ascend leverages its expertise and multitude of sources to help you obtain senior debt, mezzanine debt, and second lien financing from banks and non-traditional sources.
Value Build Advisory Services - Most investment bankers only work with businesses that are transaction ready even though they may say something different. That's great if you're ready - but what if you're not? Maybe you're proactive and contemplating an eventual sale or you feel your company is not ready today and falls short of your valuation expectations.

We work with you to develop and execute a plan (the Ascend Roadmap), which is a fine blend of choosing the right opportunities combined with risk mitigation within your desired timeframe, all designed to give you the ultimate increase in valuation at the time you enter the M&A marketplace.

Ascend assists with specific components of the plan such as evaluating strategic acquisitions to achieve valuation arbitrage, management team strategy, financial fundamentals and operating efficiencies, working capital analysis, tax structuring and planning, positioning for maximum add-backs, strategic opportunities, and leveraging brands and intellectual property along with, conducting pre-due diligence to identify and mitigate issues that could either reduce the price or jeopardize the sale altogether. In other cases, our Alliance Partners can supplement your internal resources to execute other strategic value build initiatives.

Locations

Location
2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 200, 94583 CA
United States

WSO Company Database Comparison Table

Get Full Access

  • Free 1 month access by adding just 1 salary datapoint here
  • REAL salary bonus data across 1,000+ companies
  • Plus free 1 month access to 10,000+ interview insights

$0-$500,000
Est Annual Revenue

Unlock WSO Database

1 month free. Add your own pay data.