Services
FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES
VALUATION:
Often companies require additional information to better understand where they stand and to help with their planning. DH Capital has the experience and expertise to assist in the most complex or more routine valuation assignments. This information can be critical when making a decision to sell a business, justify a price paid or evaluate the relative merits of an IPO versus a sale. DH Capital's immersion in the media, Internet & telecommunications industries provides the firm with the wide perspective necessary to render detailed, fair, and accurate company and market valuations. Independent valuations performed with integrity are particularly important to companies or investors considering a re-capitalization, merger, litigation, fairness opinion, strategic planning, buy-sell agreements, employee stock-ownership plan, or a stock or partnership interest redemption.
CORPORATE DIVESTITURES:
Corporate managers, buy-out funds, and entrepreneurs can rely upon DH Capital to execute a targeted auction sale of their businesses. Our experience allows us to compress the time line and achieve efficient, timely closings at premium valuations. We are experienced in soliciting and negotiating with corporate buyers.
RECAPITALIZATION:
Sale of a minority or majority equity interest will generate capital while allowing the owner to maintain a leadership role and participate in future equity appreciation. Recapitalizations can also be an excellent way to minimize estate taxes while transferring ownership to the next generation.
MANAGEMENT BUYOUTS:
Often, the best prospect to purchase a business is its management team. However, these teams frequently lack the equity and financial relationships to independently consummate a transaction. DH Capital can assist these management teams in the structuring and financing of a transaction while providing ownership the assurance that they received a fair, competitive value for the business.
FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING
Work-out, Bankruptcy & Turnaround Consulting:
Sometimes a company has done everything in its power to improve its operating performance, but is still unable to pay all of its existing debts in a timely manner or has simply hit a wall. When such conditions exist, a company needs to consider various alternatives that might exist to restructure its debts. Two of the best known financial restructuring approaches are: An out-of-court workout of how the company will handle repayment of its debts or a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization that is done through the Bankruptcy Court system. DH Capital has the experience and expertise to help a company in several ways:
- Select the restructuring method best for the unique circumstances of the company
- Assist in developing a realistic restructuring plan that the company can afford, and that is designed to gain the approval of the company’s lenders and trade creditors
- Raise new capital to help finance the company’s plan
- Negotiate with the company’s lenders and trade creditors
Other times DH Capital is called upon to assist with turning around under performing and/or financially distressed companies, providing workable solutions and strategic planning. The DH Capital team has extensive hands-on experience to assist the client in the following areas:
- Assessing the viability of the company
- Designing comprehensive turnaround business plans
- Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the company & its management
- Managing cash flow and Creating profit enhancement initiatives
- Rapid identification of areas of loss, developing and, if requested, implementing cost reduction programs
- Optimizing assets to improve liquidity and analyzing the value of collateral
- Attracting new capital funding from debt and/or equity sources
- Developing alternative strategies for dealing with creditors
- Providing, if requested, interim management services
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
DH Capital represents buyers, sellers, and investors in merger & acquisition transactions in the media, Internet, and telecommunications industries. The firm's extensive contacts and research capabilities ensure that before a transaction, clients are well-informed about likely valuation ranges, potential interested parties, the conduct of the sale process, and the length of time before a transaction should be completed.
The principal's at DH Capital have proven and effective capabilities in the Merger & Acquisition arena. After defining the scope and objectives of individual clients, DH Capital designs and executes a specific plan to achieve these goals. We leverage our team's industry and deal making expertise by drawing on our extensive industry relationships, market knowledge, and research materials and capabilities. Our job is to make a difficult process manageable and worthwhile by negotiating transactions that acknowledge and reward the time, talent and capital invested in the business over the years.
SELL-SIDE:
The decision to sell is probably the most important decision the owners of a company will ever make. It is a difficult business decision, colored by financial, marketing, legal and tax questions. It is also a difficult personal decision under any circumstances. We fully appreciate the sensitive business and personal issues involved when a company changes hands. Everything we do is directed at addressing these issues and completing the transaction successfully, with as little disruption as possible throughout the process.
BUY-SIDE:
Companies routinely look to growth strategies which embrace acquisitions. Acquisitions are an effective avenue to increase market share, expand product/service lines, generate economies of scale, as well as strengthen a company's competitive position. While the benefits of an acquisition program seem expansive, acquisitions can also be risky endeavors. DH Capital possesses the requisite experience to assist companies in exploring their acquisition options and to assist in successfully executing a consolidation strategy.
OPERATIONAL CONSULTING
DH Capital is set apart from many other financial professionals by our hands-on management experience. The principals at DH capital have personally been involved in the acquisition, integration and operation of media, Internet and telecommunications companies. The extensive and varied experience in-house at DH Capital provides the firm with the ability to assist clients with both the fine-tuning of their businesses on a day to day level and with the larger strategic challenges that face any company.
DH Capital provides operational consulting designed to help clients improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.
PRIVATE CAPITAL PLACEMENT
DH Capital provides a wide range of financing services by arranging the private placement of equity and debt with a variety of investors. The principal's at DH Capital have closed numerous private placement transactions totaling over $10 billion, using a variety of private financing approaches for clients. We are experienced in arranging loans with banks and finance companies, term debt with insurance companies and pension funds, project finance debt, asset-backed financing, buyout financing, mezzanine financing, and private equity.
As the private placement agent, we facilitate the placement process from beginning to end. Our services include structuring the transaction, preparing a summary of terms and a placement memorandum, devising a marketing strategy, contacting investors to market the financing, negotiating final terms with investors, and expediting documentation and closing