Financings, Acquisitions and Exits

Guiding Your Business Through Milestones

At HMLG, we specialize in helping businesses navigate critical financial and transactional milestones. Whether you’re securing financing, entering a merger, forming a joint venture, or preparing for an acquisition or exit, our team provides tailored strategies to achieve your goals and maximize value.

Proactive Due Diligence for Better Outcomes

HMLG is uniquely positioned to anticipate and address due diligence challenges before they arise. Our proactive approach helps you offensively vet your business, positioning you to negotiate from a place of strength.

  • Identifying strengths and weaknesses in your business that could impact transaction terms.
  • Streamlining due diligence processes to avoid delays and maximize efficiency.
  • Enhancing your company’s value and attractiveness to investors, buyers, or acquirers.

Customized Strategies for Every Transaction

Every deal is unique. That’s why we take a thoughtful and sophisticated approach, helping you craft a strategy for your long-term vision. We collaborate with your management team and our comprehensive oversight helps identify and mitigate risks, ensuring your transaction is seamless and successful.

Your Advisor for the Entire Lifecycle

Unlike traditional firms, HMLG goes beyond deal execution. We oversee and implement your master financing plan, collaborating with your management, accounting team, and external professionals to ensure all aspects of the transaction are aligned with your goals, including integration.

What Slows Deals Down

Deals rarely fail on price. They stall on documentation.

An IP chain of title with a gap in it. Contractor agreements with no assignment clause. A cap table failing to reconcile. Customer contracts with change of control provisions nobody read. Board approvals never recorded.

Every one of those problems was created years earlier, in a decision seeming minor at the time. Finding them during diligence means fixing them under deadline pressure, with the other side watching.

HMLG identifies them before the process starts.

HMLG Financing, Acquisition, and Exit Services

  • Joint Ventures, Non-Profits, and other Strategic Business Transactions
  • Financing and Investments, M&A
  • Crowdfunding
  • Public and Private Offerings
  • Exit Strategies
  • Joint Ventures
  • Complex Strategic Alliances
  • Developing Equity Structures
  • Negotiating with Capital Investors
  • Counselling on Equity and Debt Finance
  • M&A transactions for Private and Public Companies
  • Cross Border Transactions
  • Preparing Companies for Sale or Public Offering
  • Poison Pills/Defensive Counseling
  • Private Equity Sponsored Transactions
  • “Roll ups” and Other Consolidation Programs
  • Corporate Carve Outs and Divisional Acquisitions
  • Liability Assessment and Diligence Review
  • Evaluation and Position of Intellectual Property Portfolio
  • Consolidation and Streamlining of IP Holdings

FAQ

What is due diligence in a business transaction?

Due diligence is the investigation a buyer or investor performs before closing. It typically examines corporate records, contracts, intellectual property ownership, employment, litigation, and financials, to confirm the business is what it was represented to be.

How should a company prepare for an acquisition?

By running diligence on itself first. That means confirming IP chain of title, reconciling the cap table, collecting signed agreements, reviewing customer contracts for change of control provisions, and closing gaps in governance records before a buyer finds them.

How long does a financing or acquisition take?

Timelines vary widely with deal size and complexity. The most common cause of delay is documentation problems discovered during diligence, the part a company can control in advance.

What is a change of control provision?

A contract term giving the other party rights when your company is acquired, such as consent, termination, or renegotiation. Customer and vendor agreements containing them can materially affect a transaction.

ARE YOU READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR LEGAL STRATEGY?

Let’s connect! Whether you’re looking for an in-house legal team or need to augment your existing counsel, HMLG is ready to help you rock your business.

Contact us today to learn how we can assist you with practical, proactive, world-class legal support.

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