FOCUS ON BUSINESS SERVICES

Houlihan Capital’s dedicated Business Services Group provides strategic financial advisory and capital raising to companies within the business services sector. Understanding the time sensitivity and confidentiality of many of our assignments, we work diligently to meet these demands and minimize operational disruption.

COMPANIES WE SERVE

Environmental Services
Waste Management
Engineering
Architectural and Design
Consulting
Human Capital Management
Outsourcing
Information Services
Marketing
Professional Services

INVESTMENT BANKING SERVICES

Drawing upon transactional and financing experience, sound industry knowledge, and an expansive network of active players and capital sources, our seasoned bankers have successfully completed dozens of transactions for our clients within the business services sector.

Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory

We understand that every transaction is unique and requires a tailored approach. Our bankers are committed to structuring and executing M&A transactions specifically targeted at assisting our clients in achieving their strategic, financial, and risk-management objectives. We have provided our clients with the following services:

Evaluating, exploring, and recommending financial and strategic alternatives with respect to sales, acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, or successions
Providing due diligence, timing, valuation, pricing, special committee advisory, and transaction structure support
Developing of offering documents and materials
Assessing potential targets and acquirers
Negotiating, structuring, and closing transactions

Corporate Finance Advisory

We structure and execute financing alternatives for business services clients to meet the evolving needs of their businesses. Whether clients are seeking growth opportunities, liquidity events, or capital restructuring, Houlihan Capital leverages extensive relationships with sources of capital to create financing solutions that maintain financial and operating flexibility, while still meeting client objectives.

STRATEGIC FINANCIAL ADVISORY GROUP

Houlihan has decades of experience providing companies with objective, independent, and defensible opinions of value that meet accounting, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements. In addition, we have extensive expertise in providing the following appraisals:

Financial Opinions (e.g., Fairness, Solvency)
Enterprise Valuation
ESOP
Estate and Gift Tax
Purchase Price Allocation
Goodwill Impairment
Tax and Fresh Start Accounting
Portfolio Valuation & Advisory

Financial Reporting and Tax Compliance

Our strategic financial advisory services satisfy both domestic and international financial reporting standards. We closely monitor new regulatory and accounting pronouncements, which alleviates the uncertainty and pressures placed on our clients and allows them to remain focused on operating their businesses. Our work is thorough, robust, and supported by the countless number of regulators and auditors who have approved our valuation reports.

Corporate Valuations and Asset Appraisals

Our valuations and analyses aid management teams in making informed and timely business decisions. We are adept at recognizing and uncovering hidden value and support our findings with proven valuation methodologies.

FINANICAL OPINIONS

As transactions become increasingly complicated and regulatory hurdles and investor concerns rise, companies must adhere to the highest fiduciary standards and follow a thorough, well-documented process.

Fairness Opinions - In significant change of control or capital transactions, obtaining a fairness opinion from Houlihan Capital serves the dual role of facilitating the decision-making process and providing evidence that Boards of Directors and Special Committees acted in a manner consistent with their fiduciary responsibilities.

Solvency Opinions - If engaging in a highly leveraged transaction where minimal equity is involved and the company and other creditors could be subject to undue financial distress, obtaining a Houlihan solvency opinion offers a logical and financially prudent means of achieving assurance for parties to a transaction that the company will be able to meet debt obligations as they come due.

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Selected Recent Transactions

Rocky Mountain Capital

Members of Rocky Mountain Capital have completed a Management Buyout of its wholly owned subsidiary

Rocky Mountain Wealth Concepts

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Everglades University

Has acquired

The Keiser School, Inc./Keiser University

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PawsPlus, Inc.

(PINK: PPLS)

Has entered into a transaction to sell certain assets to a newly formed entity

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