Huron Transaction Advisory

Formal partnerships with organizations in and outside of your industry can provide a long-term competitive advantage. We guide you through the development of a partnership strategy rooted in current and future industry trends, creating a rubric for identifying, evaluating and prioritizing opportunities. Our professionals work side by side with you, bringing potential partners to the table, overseeing negotiations and formalizing alliances that benefit everyone involved.

Shedding assets can be a significant step toward stabilizing revenue and increasing profitability and liquidity, as well as extending the longevity of your business. Huron Transaction Advisory helps leadership teams manage all facets of public and private company sales and corporate divestitures, from asset valuation to marketing, investor coordination and purchase agreement support. Our team has extensive experience negotiating and structuring highly complex special situations and “regular-way” transactions to drive the best value for your organization.

Mergers and acquisitions are vital to capturing market share and driving growth. Huron Transaction Advisory’s professionals are well versed in navigating each phase of the buy-side M&A process, from setting a clear vision and evaluating opportunities to negotiating agreements, executing due diligence reviews, implementing financing plans and planning for the integration of your organizations. Our unique approach to transaction and integration advisory helps to maximize value for customers, employees, boards and shareholders.

Access to capital is critical to maintaining financial stability and fueling long-term growth. Relying on our network of institutional relationships and capital markets experience, we assist you in raising debt and equity capital in connection with recapitalizations, refinancings, turnarounds, growth capital, M&A, share repurchases, and shareholder or management buyouts. We advocate for your business, helping tell your story to investors and potential lenders, including banks, finance and insurance firms, and hedge funds.

As industry dynamics, competitive landscapes and customer behaviors evolve, leaders need to make prudent decisions to preserve the bottom line. We have significant expertise negotiating the restructuring of existing debt and equity, particularly in contentious and disputed situations. Our team advises leaders on the optimal terms for balance sheet restructurings, with experience executing exchange offers, debt-for-equity swaps and Chapter 11 plans.

Identifying potential M&A targets is only one step toward an effective transaction. With deep industry expertise in healthcare, education, life sciences and energy, we lead organizations through the due diligence process, comprehensively or in specific areas, to give management teams the confidence that the sale will yield the desired results. From financial and risk analyses to gauging the compatibility of business teams and cultures, our professionals deliver unbiased assessments to inform high-stakes decisions.

The success of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and carve-outs is contingent on a smooth integration or transition plan. We work with you to create an integration strategy that informs the future state for each organization’s people, processes and technology and that mitigates risk and yields cost savings. Our professionals establish and lead formal project management offices that bring together diverse functional stakeholders to assist in achieving the intended outcomes of transactions.

Commercial disputes and major financial transactions are common, but complex. Our senior investment bankers have decades of experience executing capital markets transactions and are often asked to provide expert testimony to support the completion of a transaction or on issues involved in a litigated transaction. We work collaboratively with Huron's litigation advisory professionals to evaluate and develop a strategy around complex litigation. We also prepare expert reports, provide valuation opinions, and testify in depositions and at trial.