Cherry Tree M&A Private Investment Banking
The Cherry Tree M&A team is a unique group of investment bankers. Our senior Managing Directors have come from careers on the front lines of companies that are similar to our clients' companies. We have been company Presidents, owners, investors, corporate M&A specialists, buyers, and sellers. We know what it is like to build and run a successful enterprise, what it means to sell your company, and how a buyer looks at a deal. We are experienced dealmakers who are passionate about serving our clients because we have been there ourselves.

Our M&A practice focuses in two areas:

Seller Representation. Our M&A professionals represent company owners in change-of-control transactions. Many of these transactions involve the full sale of the company for owners who are interested in exiting the business. Our efficient approach typically yields multiple written offers in less than three months. Moving forward, we manage a competitive bidding process with both strategic and financial buyers to extract best value for each deal. Finally, we work closely with our clients through deal structuring, due diligence, and closing to ensure that the optimum result ends up in the hands of our clients.

We also represent management teams and owners in recapitalization transactions with outside investors. These deals let owners cash in on a large portion of their wealth while staying on with a new financial investor to continue to build their company. With the new resources from the financial investors, the "selling" owners or management team continue to build the company to greater size and value. These "recaps" work very well for transitioning from family ownership to professional management teams, or for passing a company from one generation to the next in a way that generates cash for other owners who may personally want to exit the business.

Buyer Representation. Corporate buyers and financial investors retain Cherry Tree investment bankers to develop opportunities to acquire profitable, well-managed companies. In a time when well-managed profitable companies are hard to find in the marketplace, Cherry Tree M&A's professionals are effective at identifying motivated sellers.

Our buy-side assignments are frequently built around our unique microVertical Acquisition Program to deliver proprietary acquisition opportunities in a narrowly targeted industry sector.