Professional Services

Advisory

CORPORATE FINANCIAL ADVISORY: Many middle market companies and their financial advisors lack experience in the corporate finance tools used extensively by larger companies. Bentley's professionals can help management and owners by analyzing their company's current financial status and help prepare for the future. Advice can be provided, on a timely and cost effective basis, on such issues as:  

• Internal growth verses growth through acquisitions.
• The maximizing of shareholder's rate of return on  investment, including the appropriate actions to be taken to prepare a company for sale.
• Balance sheet restructuring to increase profitability and to permit flexibility which can enable the company to take quick advantage of situations as they arise.
• The appropriate mix of equity and debt.
• Preparing a company for a public offering and guiding a company through the public offering process.
• Taking a company private in a management buy-out or related strategy.
• The recapitalization of both healthy and distressed companies and the strategy to best accomplish these goals.

EXPERT WITNESS, LITIGATION SUPPORT: Bentley's senior professionals are experienced in providing expert testimony in a variety of investment banking issues in litigation or arbitration.

VALUATIONS: Bentley Associates works with clients and values businesses for a variety of different purposes. Most all of the business valuation assignments undertaken by Bentley are based upon a “going concern” assumption. Bentley does, however, value financial assets, including both marketable and illiquid investments. Following is a list of some of the different purposes for a valuation assignment:

• Mergers, Acquisitions or Divestitures
• Raising Financing
  - Initial Public Offering
  - Private Placement of Equity-Related Securities
• Gift, Estate and Inheritance Taxes, and Estate Planning
• Buy-Sell Agreements
• Marital, Partnership and Corporate Dissolutions
• Bankruptcy Reorganizations
• Litigation or Arbitration