Our capital markets advisory services are designed to provide tailored financing solutions across the full spectrum of the capital structure, particularly for clients faced with complex growth or funding situations.

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Our experts employ a highly customized and collaborative approach to deliver solutions that fit each client’s needs, providing financing alternatives across the entire capital structure. We support clients in raising adequate funds, allowing them to execute strategic plans, expand their businesses, and maximize enterprise value. We are uniquely qualified to support transitioning, rebounding, or early-stage companies with access to non-traditional sources to raise the capital needed to support their goals for recovery or growth.

Our Approach
Our team is comprised of experienced investment bankers providing an industry-defining, operationally focused viewpoint, with client sector knowledge focused on a single goal: delivering solutions to our clients regardless of their situation. Our capital markets advisory services are utilized by clients at all phases of their lifecycles to raise funds in a variety of situations including growth initiatives, to support strategic goals, development of new products and processes, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and refinancing existing debt to correct a misaligned capital structure.

We have extensive experience delivering capital markets expertise to organizations facing complex situations that require proficiency and attention-to-detail to navigate. We serve with a sense of urgency that is often required in helping our clients facing tight funding deadlines, distressed and turnaround situations, story-driven transactions, and rapidly evolving growth scenarios, among other special circumstances. Our investment banking experts provide strategic guidance to raise capital through debt, equity, and/or hybrid approaches to achieve an optimal outcome for our clients. We navigate complexity with innovative transaction strategies designed to maximize value for our clients. We cultivate collaborative relationships with our clients to jointly address underlying business issues and close transactions efficiently. We set forth rational goals informed by real-time understanding of the current market environment, leading to an extremely high success rate for our clients.

Opportune Situations

• Companies that require creative funding strategies to realize or accelerate compelling growth or acquisition opportunities.
• Transactions that require an expertly delivered, “story-driven” marketing approach or multi-dimensional process with several tactics running concurrently.
• Balance sheet optimization strategies that leverage unique or specialized assets to extract value or enhance cash flow.
• Corporate refinancings as part of a restructuring effort to provide time and capital to execute a turnaround or business plan.
• Transactions that require extreme speed of execution without diminishing the effectiveness of the process or becoming overly burdensome on the business.
  
  

Robust & Diversified Network
Through the quality of our work and the diversity of our engagements, our team has cultivated longstanding relationships with highly regarded institutions, both as clients and as counterparties in transactions. This gives us unmatched credibility with and access to lenders and investors, providing significant value for our clients, including:

• Family Offices
• Private Equity
• Venture Capital
• Credit Funds
• Specialty Lenders
• Banks
  
  

Financing Considerations
In addition to the interest rate and amount of financing offered, many other factors should be evaluated to determine the holistic merits of a financing term sheet, including how the relationship will impact the operations of the business post-closing and whether the lender is the right partner for the current situation:

Intellectual Property Debt & Equity
Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held, delivers specialized intellectual property (IP) expertise to help clients identify and drive corporate value through the management of IP assets.

Understanding the value and contribution of IP to an enterprise is fundamental to an organization’s ability to access both equity and debt capital, plan and negotiate joint venture and M&A activity, and execute value added strategies to maximize the return on investment in these assets.

Our IP valuation experience goes well beyond desktop valuations; and our real-time market knowledge is a primary reason why clients retain our experts to perform accurate market value assessments. We realize that there are numerous factors that drive the value of IP; and we are experts in providing our investor and board of director clients with current, market-based scenario analyses that not only educate but also facilitate supportable, educated decisions.

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