Red Hawk Provides Investment Banking and Advisory Services

Private Investment Banking
Mergers & Acquisitions
Debt, Equity Placements
Financial Restructurings
Special Situation Corporate Finance
Ohio and Midwest Focus
Certified Turnaround Professional

We provide our Clients great advice and the financial means with which to achieve their goals.  

Who Are We?

Red Hawk Associates, Ltd. (founded in 1998) is a professional firm providing private investment banking, consulting and commercial real estate property preservation services to lower middle market private companies and financial institutions.

What Do We Do?

Provide Liquidity for our Clients, through business sales, recapitalizations or financial and operational restructurings.

Our private company Clients face a great challenge today: they have made it through the Recession but do not have capital available to be viable or grow in this economic cycle.  However, now, with our help, they gain liquidity through selling all or part of their ownership or through refinancing under better terms.

Our lending institution Clients confront the opposite challenge: many borrowers have survived the Recession but cannot service their debt as currently structured.  These borrowers need professional assistance to plan and execute a strategy to exit their incumbent lender, through a sale, recapitalization or wind down.  Now, valuations are improving so that lenders can achieve higher recoveries, with a thoughtful approach.  Red Hawk helps develop and implement those approaches for companies or lenders.

Mergers & Acquisitions	Debt & Equity Placements	Financial Restructurings
·         Sell – Side Representation	·         Senior Debt	·         Financial & Operational Restructurings
·         Buy – Side Representation	·         Second Lien and Mezzanine Debt	·         Debt Restructurings
·         Valuations	·         Private Equity	·         Article 9 and §363 Sales
		·         Asset Sales, Liquidations
		·         Roles: Advisor, Chief Restructuring Officer, Liquidating Agent, Receiver

  

 

 

1.       Private Investment Banking (providing liquidity)

 

i.                     Specializing in Fast Business Sales or Refinancings:  

 

1.       Lower to middle market privately held companies: revenues generally from $5 mm to $50 mm, transaction values generally from $1 mm to $25 mm

2.       Difficult Deals: Restructurings, turnarounds, Chapter 11 or 7, Article 9 Sales

3.       Fast (90-120 Day) Business Sales and Refinancings under special circumstances including Article 9 of UCC, Bank forbearance agreements, Chapters 11 or 7, Receiverships 
        
        - Faster Transaction Speed results in lower transaction costs, less business and account management disruption, less legal risk

ii.               Sell-side representation

 

1.       Evaluating financial alternatives to increase value

2.       Developing sale marketing plans and communication plans with target buyers, creating a fast, urgent process to maximize transaction value in a short period

3.       Running buyer communication including data rooms, site visits, data requests

4.       Evaluating offers and negotiating term sheets and final transaction

iii.              Buy-side representation

 

1.       Specialty in acquiring distressed assets with revenues generally from $10 mm to $300 mm

2.       Developing, with Client management, a value creation strategy including m & a

3.       Evaluating strategic financial alternatives

4.       Identifying and contacting potential targets

5.       Valuing targets and developing transaction strategies and structures

6.       Assisting in negotiations

 

iv.                 Corporate Finance: Raising Debt and/or Equity, often when Client needs additional support in CFO/Controller Function

 

v.                   Business Valuations, including fairness opinions, through our Strategic Partner (holds CPA/ABV, ASA certifications)

 

2.       Financial Restructuring

 

i.                     Restructuring and Turnarounds

 

1.       Restructuring advice typically includes Clients with revenues from $5 mm to $250 mm

2.       Our Roles include: Advisor, Chief Restructuring Officer, Receiver

3.       Efforts include: analyzing cash flow, developing projections and providing cash flow improvement advice/implementation

4.       Goals are often to develop a plan to keep the good part(s) of the business, successfully exit the bad

ii.               Performance Improvement

 

1.       Typically includes Clients with revenues from $5 mm to $1 billion

2.       Developing strategic and marketing plans

3.       Improving operating effectiveness through Six Sigma/Lean-based and other approaches

 

iii.                  Commercial Real Estate Services for Troubled Owners or Lenders

1.       With Strategic Partner, H & M Management, providing Clients with consulting, property preservation, maintenance, and management services

Why Choose Us?

1.       Experience: Red Hawk’s teams have succeed in dozens of Client engagements

2.       Expertise: David Brown and several Red Hawk Advisory Directors are published authors, speakers and expert witnesses
3.    Speed: Faster Transaction Speed results in lower transaction costs, less business and account management disruption, less legal risk

 

Our Approach

We begin by reaching agreement with our Client on what should be done and what their investment will be.  Then we work collaboratively, "side by side" with our Client.