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Valuations

We provide valuations for buy-side and sell-side transactions and strategic planning purposes. For corporate internal purposes, our valuations may also be used to support market value accounting.

Fairness Opinions

Our professionals have extensive experience providing fairness opinions to companies and their boards of directors in order to assist them in fulfilling their fiduciary obligation to verify the financial fairness of a pending transaction. We provide objective advice in assessing the financial fairness of our clients’ transactions.

Hermes has a full range of capabilities to assist clients in raising capital in private markets. Our private placement services are tailored to the specific needs of our clients. We have longstanding relationships with institutional investors across all classes, which enable us to provide our clients with access to traditional and non-traditional financing sources.

We have extensive experience developing customized equity, debt, or hybrid capital solutions for clients, including:

• Private equity placements
• Buyout, consolidation, and acquisition financings
• Mezzanine and subordinated debt placements
• Private investments in public equity (PIPEs)

Our investor relationships extend across a wide array of investors, including:

• Private Equity/LBO Firms
• Sector Specific Hedge Funds
• Institutional Investors
• Mezzanine Debt Firms
• Strategic Corporate Investors

Our professionals have extensive experience in successfully executing all types of strategic advisory assignments, having executed more than 25 middle-market technology M&A transactions. We offer our considerable M&A expertise and broad base of industry contacts in support of our clients’ M&A strategies. Each deal is executed by senior bankers with strong execution skills and a singular focus on negotiating value for clients. Our senior bankers work in close collaboration with client management teams at every step of the process through to closing. Our full service practice is global in scope and engages private and public companies as well as financial sponsor firms in all types of advisory work.

Buy-Side Advisory

We have a strong record of successful buy-side advisory assignments in relation to both public and private targets. We help clients plan and execute successful acquisitions, starting with strategic target identification and continuing through all stages of the transaction to closing and post-closing.

Sell-Side Advisory

Whether it is a negotiated sale, or a limited or structured auction, we have a strong history of achieving premium valuations and favorable terms for our clients in sell-side advisory roles.

We offer our clients a broad range of capital raising and strategic and financial advisory services in connection with mergers & acquisitions, private placements, valuations and fairness opinions. Our seasoned technology investment banking team has a proven track record of executing transactions for emerging growth and middle market companies. Our focus and expertise extends well beyond traditional investment banking advisory services to assisting clients in evaluating broad market opportunities and developing long-term strategic direction which may involve both organic and M&A-driven expansion. Our strength lies in our ability to generate innovative ideas and solutions and provide objective, unbiased advice as an effective extension of our clients’ corporate development organizations. Our corporate culture is built on teamwork, integrity and professionalism and we emphasize long-term relationships with clients spanning multiple corporate entities and transactions.

First-rate execution from experienced corporate finance and M&A professionals

• Extensive transaction execution experience and deep industry expertise
• Strong understanding of complex transaction issues
• Specific expertise in complicated, multi-faceted M&A and financing assignments
• Refined and responsive transaction process tailored to the goals and objectives of our clients
• 24/7 support via email, phone and face-to face interaction

Senior-level attention throughout the transaction process

• Each deal is executed by senior bankers working in very close collaboration with client management teams
• Senior level access to leading industry executives, investors and entrepreneurs
• Intimate involvement in every step of the transaction process, including the negotiation of final documentation, through to closing

Independent judgment and experience

• Firm culture of providing clients with unbiased and insightful advice
• Providing sound advice is core to our long-term success in serving clients
• We view M&A as a solution, not just a transaction
• Focused on producing the best possible outcome, not making unrealistic promises

Relentless focus on maximizing value for our clients

• Aggressive approach to negotiating value for clients
• In-depth technical and financial skills for value-enhancing deal structuring
• Creative “out of the box” solutions to transaction roadblocks