CORPORATE FINANCE

Overview: Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) has consistently achieved exceptional transaction results for its clients across both its key services, M&A and Fundraising. This has been achieved through a combination of experience, embedded relationships, sector focus, international contacts and unprecedented commitment:

Experience

Since its foundation in 2002, Macam has built a substantial experience base in M&A and Fundraising. Our team has unique capabilities to match client needs with market appetite across acquirers, investors and lenders.

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) personnel have, collectively, over 50 years of transactional experience, drawn from international investment banking, legal, accountancy, technology industry and consulting backgrounds. Macam is a specialist in small and mid-market deals, which often require more honed and focused skills than needed for large transactions.

Embedded Relationships

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) has built deep, trusted relationships with both investors and acquirers. The majority of Macam's transactions are brought to us by international venture capitalists and client referrals, a testimony to its relationships with these leaders. Macam also invests significant resources in maintaining its relationship with key acquirers across its chosen sectors, driving transactions and building valuable strategic insight.

Sector Focus

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) has a strong focus on the TMT and services sectors. MCF retains high quality in-house sector experts, with industry backgrounds, to ensure decision making is based on very complete domain intelligence. MCF accepts mandates outside these focus areas on an exception basis only.

Macam’s Proprietary Capital Markets Database –

International Contacts and Reach

Our proprietary internal database holds regularly updated, detailed records of thousands of firms and brokers. Private Equity Info is a valuable resource; our database contains information on financial buyers, hedge funds, mezzanine investors and valuation firms.

• 14,500 International Brokers - Retail brokers are categorized by their portfolio size, assets under management, sector preference, investment style, buying requirements, interests and many others types of profiles. We have long standing relationships with thousands who participate in some capacity during our IR activities or financings.
• North American Funds - 2,405. We help our clients gain exposure and rally interest with some of North American's largest Institutional accounts. We do this by targeting specific Portfolio Managers ("PM's") within our detailed database system which categorized by their portfolio size, assets under management, sector preference, investment style, buying requirements, interests and many other profile specs. Shareholder analysis is the principal most desired analytical tool for investor due diligence. Whether you are a CEO of a company or an investment dealer, the information in our database provides capitalizes on opportunity and is essential to a successful operation and connecting with the right capital.
• Private Equity Firms - Search U.S. and European private equity firms by industries of investment interest, acquisition criteria, and transaction types, location of headquarters, portfolio companies and professional bios.
• Hedge Funds - Search SEC-registered hedge funds by name, state, number of employees, assets under management, number of client accounts and more.
• Mezzanine Investors - Search our 109 US mezzanine firms by state or alphabetically and view their contact information
• Valuation Firms - Search 260 U.S. valuation service providers by state or alphabetically and view their contact information.

Commitment

Macam Corporate Finance's (MCF) commitment, determination and record, stands out from its peers. MCF retains a grip on the transaction from start to finish, delivering a deeper and more comprehensive involvement than is typical in corporate finance.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Having created value, the most critical event in the business lifecycle is value realization. Our contacts, skills and extensive international experience are critical in making the best exits.

Acquisitions

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) approaches acquisitions with a solid strategic aim, keen negotiation and flawless execution. The Team has experience spanning all the core disciplines needed for a successful acquisition: investment banking; accounting; legal; acquisition integration.

IPO

For certain businesses exceptional valuations and growth opportunities can be attained by the IPO. In considering an IPO, we have extensive stock market experience to help entrepreneurs reach the right decision and build the networks to deliver the best sponsor bank, either global or local. We can add significant value in setting up an IPO.

Capital fundraising

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) is a corporate finance firm focused on serving as a dedicated strategic and financial consultant, providing expert transaction capabilities, experienced insight, unbiased advice, and intense advocacy to achieve our clients' objectives.

We have significant expertise across a broad spectrum of transactions and strategic situations, including mergers and acquisitions, exclusive sales, private placements, financings, takeover defense, restructurings and bankruptcy-related transactions. In addition, MCF seeks to leverage upon its market intelligence, investing in situations that present compelling opportunities to enhance or create value.

During our professional careers, we have advised public, private and family-owned companies, private equity firms, major investors, boards of directors. We are skillful in helping our clients navigate complex situations while managing numerous constituencies. At the same time, we have established an outstanding track record for managing every detail of each transaction in order to achieve our clients' targeted objectives.

MCF also seeks out unique opportunities to make proprietary investments or to find situations where our skills, dedication and energy can add value to a business in exchange for equity or other securities.

Corporate Restructuring – North America

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) represents a broad range of clients in the area of Corporate Restructuring, including domestic and foreign lenders, trustees in bankruptcy, accounting firms, insurance companies and corporations, both large and small. Our team has the legal counsel relationships in place with significant experience in bankruptcies, receiverships and restructuring proceedings under the various restructuring legislation. We offer an innovative and practical approach to satisfy our clients' needs and to assist in the resolution of complex commercial problems. Our Corporate Restructuring team and Insolvency lawyers work closely with other practice groups within the firm in order to provide the experience and expertise necessary to achieve successful results.

Strategic Corporate Advisory – North America

A leader in the industry Macam works closely with its clients, with extensive publicly traded company knowledge, our team works to advise clients on a range of corporate issues. These issues have included capital structure advice, review of potential acquisitions, and assisting the company to position themselves for future corporate growth.

Equity Fundraising

A core business activity of Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) is raising finance from the international VC and private equity communities. MCF typically raises equity amounts between $2M and $200M, but will work on deals outside this range on an exception basis.

MCF has successfully completed equity fundraisings for a variety of circumstances:

•    Acquisition finance
•    Buyouts
•    Consolidations
•    Corporate Divestitures
•    Growth / expansion capital
•    Recapitalization
•    Shareholders Liquidity
•    Turnarounds

Our fully integrated, customized internal database categorizes catalogs and queries various brokers (14,500), international private equity firms (907), international hedge funds (6000), mezzanine financing and valuation firms. We draw upon this database to engage these various funds and their services, dependant on each individual clients needs.

Debt Financing

Strategic and Growth Capital from Institutional and Private Investors

Macam Corporate Finance (“MCF”) views the raising of capital as a critical role in our relationships with clients. Macam's Strategy — manage each step of the process to accomplish our clients' objectives.

• Collaboration with management at every step of the process
• Rigorous analysis of the financial implications of any potential financing structure
• Proactive management of all aspects of a transaction to achieve superior outcomes
• Centralized point-of-contact for all communications, discussions, information requests and negotiations
• Thorough, up-front due diligence, to fully understand the unique marketing aspects of each business
• Unbiased advice in analyzing available opportunities while recommending a course of action
• Constant communication and transparency with clients
• Intense advocacy throughout all negotiations

MCF raises debt finance of amounts from $2M upwards from banks and international debt providers.

Deal structuring/support

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) in conjunction with a significant proposed fundraising MCF can offer additional support in structuring or devising a transaction and where appropriate can be a business partner or front a deal.

Capital Structure

Today's middle market companies have unique needs and face different challenges than early-stage or public companies. In many instances, middle-market management teams pursue outside capital to modify the existing financial and ownership structure without the assistance of experts, costing the company valuable management time and potentially resulting in an excess dilution of the existing equity holders' ownership.

Macam Corporate Finance (MCF) can help clients analyze and understand the current capital structure of their company before there is a need to access additional funding sources. Macam will work closely with you to develop the most appropriate and optimal capital structure, keeping your specific business, industry, and short- and long-term goals in mind.

Once Macam has a clear understanding of your strategic objectives, business model, financial position, and operating parameters, we will analyze and recommend appropriate funding sources that support your personal and business goals and objectives.

Specifically, Macam can provide the following capital structure advisory services:

• Analyze the client's capital structures
• Assess the range of funding required to support the client's short- and long-term strategies
• Analyze and properly value the business as impacted by alternative capital structures
• Provide perspective on current capital market conditions and alternative funding sources
• Assist the client throughout the funding process