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M&A Services

GBQ Mergers & Acquisitions is the financial advisory group within GBQ that specializes in crafting solutions to the complex financial and strategic challenges of our clients. We serve a diverse set of clients, including corporations, partnerships, institutions, private equity, and high-net-worth individuals. We believe that what sets us apart is our dedication to:

  • Compete on the basis of our intellectual capital, which is personified by our team of highly skilled professionals
  • Demand excellence and superior quality in all that we do
  • Cultivate long-term relationships with clients, through deep roots in our market
  • Remain focused on our chosen lines of business to provide the highest degree of expertise and continuous innovation
  • Emphasize our tradition of integrity and confidentiality in all our dealings
  • Offer independent, trusted, and unbiased advice

In today's financial marketplace, merger, acquisition and divestiture activities continue as important means of achieving corporate and shareholder objectives. GBQ provides companies with comprehensive merger and acquisition services. Our M&A specialists possess an in-depth knowledge of thousands of client companies and their acquisition and divestiture objectives. In addition, we maintain numerous close relationships with active strategic and financial buyers. The firm has represented clients in numerous ways, including:

  • Advising clients in the development and formulation of merger, acquisition and divestiture strategies
  • Identifying potential buyers or acquisition targets
  • Establishing valuation criteria and ranges
  • Structuring internal M&A transactions, including management and employee buyouts
  • Developing alternatives and recommending appropriate courses of action
  • Arranging acquisition financing for buyers, consisting of all types of debt and equity
  • Structuring and negotiating transactions
  • Identifying prospective equity and joint venture partners, and working with such partners to create the necessary arrangements to consummate each transaction
  • Identifying, screening and initiating discussions with potential buyers/sellers
  • Assisting in the preparation of confidential information and selling memoranda
  • Coordinating legal, tax, accounting and other closing-related activities

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GBQ is excited to offer these services and has received high levels of interest from our client base for both buy and sell side situations. Please contact Andy Hays at (614) 221-1120 to discuss your particular situation.