Senior corporate finance advice for the deals that matter!
• M&A advisory (Sell-side & Buy-side): helping you acquire or sell a business.
• Vendor due diligence and investment memoranda: analysing and presenting your numbers with the narrative giving buyers a clear, substantiated investment case.
• LBO structuring and lender presentations: combining rigorous financial analysis with a compelling business narrative to build a clear, substantiated investment case.
• Fundraising and investment structuring: securing capital while protecting your interests.
Practical financial expertise grounded in years of hands-on transaction experience
You stay in front of your lenders, investors and counterparties.
We are your back office: we analyze, model and prepare you and your materials.
If you would rather not go alone, we can attend meetings alongside you, strictly as your adviser:
we never lead the discussion for you, and we do not solicit or introduce investors or lenders.
An Expertise You Can Trust
30+
$90M+
$40M
Years of Experience
Raised: $40M+ for his own companies, $50M+ for clients he supported
Largest single project developed by Frederic Bouvard
600+
Jobs created by Frederic throughout his carreer
1. M&A advisory, sell-side
Selling your company at the right price, with a story that sells.
Accounts and valuation. We normalize your accounts (EBITDA, net debt, working capital) and give a valuation opinion.
Narrative. We build the story buyers will buy into: we anticipate their questions, prepare substantiated answers and present your strengths in their best light, without omitting material facts. A sale is a commercial act, not only a financial one.
Vendor due diligence. A complete VDD report on the financial and business-narrative aspects (not an audit; tax and legal due diligence are covered by your advisers), with the information pack and management presentation.
Negotiation. We support you up to the term sheet, whose business terms we draft with your lawyer, who formalizes it. It captures what you negotiated, which your lawyer, who joins at the end, has not witnessed.
2. M&A advisory, buy-side
Buying a company with your eyes open.
We screen targets and analyze their accounts, run the financial due diligence (quality of earnings, debt-like items, working capital), give a valuation opinion and price range, and support you in the negotiation up to the term sheet, drafted together with your lawyer.
3. LBO and
acquisition structuring
From the target's accounts to a financeable deal.
We analyze the target's accounts, then give a valuation opinion.
We build the full financial model that defines the financial structure of the operation and its financing: sources and uses, holding, equity and debt mix, returns.
We prepare the presentation documents for lenders and investors, and for the sellers.
4. Fundraising
Raise funds in equity, in debt or through hybrid instruments such as mezzanine or convertible notes.
We take your project from idea to a fundable file:
1. Structure the project. Business model, scope, phasing, and legal and financial structure, with your counsel.
2. Build the financial model. Revenues, costs, investment budget, cash flow, funding requirement (how much, when, for what), break-even point, scenarios and sensitivities with documented assumptions, indicative investor return scenarios and debt capacity.
3. Define the financing strategy & plan. Valuation approach and pre-money assumptions, equity and debt mix, capital structure and the range of equity to offer.
4. Build the narrative. A fundraising is won on the story as much as on the numbers. We anticipate investors' and lenders' questions and prepare substantiated answers, including risks and assumptions.
5. Write the documents that sell. From the elevator pitch to the information memorandum, via the pitch deck, the business plan and financial model, and the feasibility study.
We support you up to the term sheet, drafted with your lawyer.
You lead your roadshow and discussions; we stay behind the scenes, or assist you during the meetings.
We do not introduce or solicit investors or lenders.
5. Investor support and forensic analysis
When you invest, you need to know what really happens to your money.
• We monitor ongoing investments (budgets, cash flows, reporting).
• When a company has failed towards its investors, we reconstruct the full history (flows, accounts, contractual commitments, communications) and write reports to inform your decisions and brief your counsel.
• Whenever needed, we help you fix the situation
6. Financial analysis and second opinions
• Restating EBITDA from incomplete records,
• Reconstructing cash flows,
• Reconciling accounts,
• Sanity-checking financing offers.
It underpins services 1 to 5 and can be provided standalone.
7. Feasibility studies and business plans
Studies and plans written to convince.
Independent feasibility studies and investor-grade business plans and financial models, for any sector: tech, leisure, hospitality, food and beverage, real estate, industry.
How we work
Senior-led: you deal with Frederic Bouvard personally, not a junior team.
Plain language: you don't need financial expertise, every term is explained.
Best efforts: we commit to the quality of our work, without guaranteeing outcomes that depend on the strength of your project, your decisions, your ability to execute and market conditions.
As entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand what’s at stake and treat every project as if it were our own.