Strategic Advisory Services

Overview

In addition to our transactional capabilities, Frontier assists clients in various strategic advisory assignments. With our wide background in a variety of businesses and situations, we can provide the specific analysis and expertise to help clients identify the range of possible solutions for the clients’ objectives and evaluate those solutions to find the most appropriate, optimal solution.

Frontier appropriately blends the most elaborate and suitable analytical methodologies, extraordinary insight from decades of experience, and the realities of the marketplace to provide an array of strategic advisory services to its clients.

Restructuring/Financial Distress Advisory Services

The professionals leading our Restructuring Division, Tom Dolembo and George Nicholson, have over 50 years of combined operations, financial, marketing and strategic experience, with a particular emphasis on managing and successfully re-engineering financially challenged businesses. Along with a virtual network of former executive managers and service providers, George, Tom and their virtual network have successfully completed over 35 turnarounds in diverse industries with revenues from $10 to $150 million.

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Strategic Alternative Assessments/Strategic Advisory Reports open

Such engagements can cover the analysis of strategic and financial alternatives, including comprehensive integrated analyses and independent perspectives of, and strategic advice regarding, strategic and financial alternatives available to a business. Typically, such analyses would explore all alternatives, including strategic transactions, alternative business strategies and shareholder value enhancement initiatives, and would detail an expected rate of return and associated risk analysis relative to each alternative. By analyzing the risk and rate of return, we assist our clients in more easily evaluating the alternative strategies and making a decision as to which strategy or strategies to implement. We also assist clients in developing and executing plans designed to grow and increase the value of the Company.

Per Transaction and Long Term Value Optimization open

Such engagements involve the analysis of the alternative strategies to successful growing and increasing value of a Company through internal or organic growth or, through the successful "partnering" of the Company with another business -- in each case, analyzing the expected risk and rate of return associated with each such alternative strategy.

Exit Strategies/Succession Planning open

Such engagements involve the analysis of alternative strategies to achieve a successful exit for the owners and/or growth of the Company, in each case, analyzing the expected risk and rate of return associated with each such alternative strategy.

Fairness Opinions and Other Special Purpose Board of Director Advisory Assignments open

Such engagements involve the representation of corporate boards and board-level special committees related to special purposes, including transactions involving affiliated parties, going private transactions, management buy-outs, hostile tender offers and shareholder rights plans.

Valuations open

Such engagements involve the assessment of value for a myriad of purposes, but typically in connection with a transaction.

Distressed Company/Chapter 11 Advisory open

Such engagements involve advisory services to companies encountering financially and strategically challenging issues, including a full array of potential alternatives in financially constrained situations.

Special Advisory Situations open

Such engagements involve advisory engagements covering the spectrum of business and securities valuation services related to ownership transfers of closely held businesses, and other related strategic and financial issues.

Initial Public Offering Advisory open

Such engagements involve advising the client on whether the pursuit of an initial public offering ("IPO") would be prudent given the client's overall strategic objectives, and if pursuing an IPO would be prudent, advising and analyzing which investment banking firm would be the "best fit" to lead the IPO by managing a process to maximize engagement terms among such investment banking firms.