MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
SELL-SIDE (HEALTHY)
The Ravinia Capital sales process is based on a comprehensive analysis of the company, an aggressive search for the right buyer, and iron control over the transaction. This process yields the highest sale price by unlocking essential value drivers and mitigating weaknesses.
We offer comprehensive sell-side support to businesses at every phase of M&A, catering to a wide array of industries and transaction sizes. We facilitate seamless mergers, assist in identifying acquisition targets, and connect sellers with the right buyers. Our expertise extends to structuring transactions in a way that helps maximize benefits for all parties involved. Additionally, we provide valuable insights on the optimal timing for mergers or acquisitions and deliver strategic advice to ensure that every deal supports the overarching objectives of our clients.
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Tom Goldblatt
Managing Partner
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ACCOLADES
The Company has strong brands with quality products, but the Company alone was unable to recover from its lack of capital. The work done by the Ravinia Capital team helped bring the Company back to profitability and to a successful sale to a new operational partner.
Interim CEO
Toy and Craft Distributor
Ravinia cared as much or more about achieving an extraordinary result than we did. The process had many ups and downs but Ravinia was always in our corner.
Mark Seigle
President & Owner at Seigle’s Cabinet Center
We could not have been happier with the devotion and the outcome of our sales process. Ravinia was always there for us and always had our best interest
Dominick Sergi
Owner at Rex Electric
*Testimonials may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is no guarantee of future performance or success.
TRANSACTIONS
Food Services
Healthy Sale
CITY FOODS
Ravinia Capital is pleased to announce the Sale of City Foods, Inc. to LHG Foods Inc. Joining previous acquisitions, Viandes Seficlo, Drummond Export, and Blue Buoy Foods, City Foods became the fourth and latest meat-packing business to come under Quebec-based LHG Foods' ownership, as well as the first located outside of Eastern Canada.
Industrials/ Manufacturing
Healthy Sale
SEIGLE'S CABINET CENTER
Ravinia Capital is pleased to announce the sale of Seigle's Cabinet Center, LLC to Sims-Lohman, Inc. As a result of the transaction, Seigle's central distribution warehouse and four existing retail showrooms will provide Cincinnati-based Sims-Lohman with a robust entry into the Illinois market, joining the four distribution centers, 20 showrooms, and six countertop manufacturing facilities already operated by the latter company in six additional states throughout the East North Central, East South Central, and Northeast regions of the United States.
Industrials/ Manufacturing
Healthy Sale
REX ELECTRIC
Ravinia Capital was a sell-side advisor to Rex on the transaction. Founded in 1921, Rex is one of the largest commercial and institutional electrical, technology, and building services contractors in the Chicagoland area. The company serves a multitude of markets including new construction, data centers, healthcare, universities, and luxury residential. “Due to the nature of the construction industry, it was crucial to find the right strategic and financial partner for Rex,” said Tom Goldblatt, President of Ravinia Capital. Chugach was established in 1972 under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and exists to serve the interests of the Alaska Native people of the Chugach region.
SELL-SIDE (DISTRESSED)
Ravinia Capital sells companies not as-is, but as-best. We utilize a thorough, aggressive, and proven deal process that ensures that each of our clients is marketed effectively to a diverse array of potential strategic and financial buyers, and that competition between these parties is leveraged to maximize the sale price. As experts in distressed M&A, we know how to market a business based on future potential, rather than past performance. Our extensive personal network of distressed investors allows our outreach to include thousands of financial buyers who are similarly inclined to see value where others may not. We are skilled and practiced in constructing narratives that convey the strategic market value of distressed companies as a function of the incremental cash flow they offer to the right buyer.
In structured processes such as Section 363 sales, securing a stalking horse bidder with a vested strategic interest in the company sets an early price floor, and ensures competition with any additional potential buyers.
Market research tools enable us to enhance this outreach with a custom, targeted list of strategic buyers whose specific operational needs will enhance their valuation of the company. This approach to marketing distressed companies is designed to enhance sellers’ negotiating power and achieve sale-price maximization by creating competition between two or more buyers whose valuations of the company far exceed liquidation value.
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ACCOLADES
Ravinia Capital brought exceptional problem-solving skills, original thinking, and tenacity to complete this transaction
Mike Ross
President, Employment Plus
The company faced liquidation and wholesale layoffs. Instead, with Ravinia’s help, it achieved a refinance operational stabilization, going concern sale. In the face of WARN Act notices having been sent, environmental issues, and other challenges, the outcome for employees, creditors, and stakeholders was materially improved.
Eric Peterson
Spencer Fane
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ACCOLADES
TRANSACTIONS
Business Services
Distressed Sale
EMPLOYMENT PLUS
When Ravinia Capital was engaged to sell this staffing company, it was in forbearance and technically insolvent. Through the transaction, Ravinia was able to keep the Company out of bankruptcy court. We ultimately closed a very successful transaction that exceeded all expectations and put capital back into the equity holders’ pockets.
Consumer Products
Distressed Sale
FIBRECRAFT
Fibre Craft was a consumer products company in forbearance with its lender. Ravinia sold the company’s assets through an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC). Ravinia’s marketing and sale process incorporated a stalking horse bidder to generate increased interest in the deal and introduce a competitive element that maximized sale proceeds.