SERVICES THAT ADD VALUE TO YOUR BUSINESS

We offer customized services to meet the unique needs of your business or commercial property, whether you are planning for growth, looking to secure funding, or navigating a sale or acquisition. We take the time to understand your unique goals and objectives as well as your challenges. Our services are tailored to meet your specific business needs.

Your success is at the heart of everything we do. We are here to support you by offering services and advice that will help your business thrive in an ever-changing environment.

The value of a business or commercial property is not predicated on a simple, static formula or method as many inexperienced or unqualified valuation analysts would have you believe. To the contrary, Financial Valuation requires a solid understanding of how a business/commercial property has created value historically, and how it plans to create value in the future, as well as an understanding of the essential conditions of the industry in which the business/commercial property competes.

As a foundational concept, Financial Valuation is rooted in the understanding of how a business/commercial property achieves a competitive advantage and utilizes its invested capital to generate returns in excess of its cost of capital. To be valid and reliable, a properly produced Financial Valuation must utilize the appropriate approaches and methods that reflect these facts.

At Benchmark Solutions, our understanding of value creation is at the heart of our Financial Valuation services and how we distinguish ourselves from other valuation analysts. We perform Financial Valuations and Fairness Opinions for Merger & Acquisition Transactions, Strategic Financial Planning as well as Business Restructuring engagements. We tailor the scope of our services to meet our clients’ specific needs, all while representing our clients’ best interests in the financial aspects of every transaction.

As with all of our work product, our Financial Valuation services are based on generally recognized professional standards and is rigorous to ensure that we are able to meet your specific goals and objectives.

Financial Analysis is an essential process used to evaluate a business or commercial property’s financial health, performance, and future earnings potential through the rigorous examination of a business/commercial properties financial data, primarily financial statements, ratios, trends, and other relevant metrics. At Benchmark Solutions, our Financial Analysis services are used to compare the performance of mutually exclusive investment opportunities as well as for making performance assessments of company specific investments. Our Financial Analysis services assist both internal management and external investors make informed decisions in the following ways:

• The identification of internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external threats and opportunities associated with a business/commercial property.

• The identification of rate of return, growth rates, risks, debt capacity and equity valuation in support of investment decisions and capital structure choices.

• The development of long-term strategic plans and short-term tactical implementation of these plans.

At Benchmark Solutions, our primary focus in on analyses that measure free cash flow as well as the drivers of free cash flow. Our focus on free cash flow is intentional because these measures provide a direct link to understanding rate of return, growth rates, transactional risk, debt capacity, and implied valuation, all of which are important factors in analyzing and valuing businesses and commercial real estate investments.

Because every M&A deal is different, the pathway to a successful transaction requires a strategic approach focused on the creation of value whether you are the buyer, seller or merger and consolidation of equals.

At Benchmark Solutions, our team has the breadth of experience and depth of knowledge to help our clients set M&A goals and objectives, weigh and value market opportunities, optimize financing options, as well as to evaluate the competitive advantages associated with any market transaction.

Our M&A financial services are strategic as well as comprehensive in nature and can make all the difference in achieving a successful outcome. From strategy to due diligence, to valuation and financing, our team can provide you with the confidence you need as you pursue your M&A goals and objectives.