Askew Kabala & Company’s institutional financial services include, but are not limited to equity placement (early stage and growth capital) recapitalization and debt formation. Specific financing to meet the needs of a business enterprise may include:


CAPITAL CREATION:
Askew Kabala maintains contact and current funding sources for placements of equity, mezzanine/subordinated debt and senior debt. Capital provides liquidity to fund the needs of a company from its initial formation to supporting growth and acquisitions. We will assemble our Firm’s team and work with you to define the right capital sources, assist in the preparation of the placement memorandum, confidentially contact the appropriate institutional investors and negotiate a satisfactory funding arrangement.


EQUITY CAPITAL:
Equity Capital can be an excellent source of funds for a business to support internal growth, complete an acquisition, recapitalize, buy-out of ownership interest and fund research and development. We work closely with Venture Capitalist, Equity Funds and Buy-Out Funds to maintain a meaningful relationship with the Funds’ partners to access them in presenting a viable capital transaction.


MEZZANINE/SUBORDINATED DEBT:
Subordinated or mezzanine debt is a useful tool in corporate finance because it can be negotiated and structured to precisely meet the financial requirement of a company. This market is very sophisticated and the loan structuring opportunities are varied to meet the unique criteria of the borrower. The capital offered by mezzanine or subordinated lenders is useful for a company that has sufficient and projected verifiable cash flow to service more debt, but has already borrowed beyond the comfort level of the bank. It can be a useful tool to obtain liquidity into an expanding company requiring capital, but desiring to minimize shareholder dilution as opposed to obtaining equity capital.


FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING:
Askew Kabala’s Investment Banking knowledge encompasses the services that may provide a company with new credit facilities that may:

• increase the borrowing capacity
• reduce costs
• remove burdened loan covenants
• to fund strategic objectives of the company.

The need for financial restructuring could be brought about because of tightening bank credit, insufficient capital base, major management changes, recent financial reverses in a company’s projections or a desire to meet certain funding requirements. To meet the needs of the company, we will review the current financial plan, make recommendations, prepare the a financing memorandum, approach the financial marketplace and negotiate the acceptable terms and conditions.

MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES:
The Firm of Askew Kabala has the knowledge and experience to manage a unique corporate sale or acquisition. Our primary objective is to obtain the maximum value in the completion of a transaction. You as our client control the process, we cannot commit your company to any sale or acquisition. We act as the financial advisor to our client and execute the process with their authority. Our service provides for the following steps:

• Business valuation and assessment of current conditions
• Develop a focused and complete market strategy
• Prepare a Sale Descriptive Memorandum with emphasis on “value drivers” that will drive the strategic value
• Prepare a list of potential buyer or acquisition targets
• Solicitation of offers
• Negotiation of Letters of Intent
• Advise through the due diligence process
• Provide closing assistance
  
  
  
  

FINANCIAL MODELING & VALUE BASED FINANCIAL PLANS:
The Firm provides expert services to prepare and validate financial forecast models that measure economic value added under a range of operating scenarios. The models identify financial resource requirements over the plan time horizon and qualify the economic value added for each period. Business plans and financial forecasts prepared in this format provide management with the following actionable insights:

• Pre and post money valuation ranges using economic value added measures understood and preferred by sophisticated investors.
• Rationalization for pricing equity rounds assuming appropriate industry risk adjusted capitalization rates for private and public companies.
• A financial blueprint for each stage of development with recommended capitalization using equity, debt or convertibles. This includes recommendations for working capital or asset financing.
• Tables that measure and quantify dilution to founders stemming from various workable financing scenarios.
• Identify value drivers to guide performance improvement.
• Identify and recommend liquidity options in public and private markets.
• Align financial performance metrics with strategic and tactical plan.