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As a successful business leader, you are faced with making important, strategic decisions when it comes to buying or selling your organization. These transactions are tedious and require a team of experts to keep the process compliant and successful. You can rely on HoganTaylor’s experienced advisors to manage the most critical areas of your deal. Our team is composed of former Chief Financial Officers, auditors, and financial analysts who will take your transaction to the next level of success.

Transaction advisory services for business owners, strategic and financial buyers, and lenders across the full spectrum of deal engagements.
Transaction Advisory Services
- Buy-side due diligence for financial and strategic buyers
- Sell-side representation for owners to shepherd the sales process, minimize disruption, and protect value
- Quality of earnings engagements
- Analysis of working capital components to define targeted working capital calculations
- Identification and rationalization of EBITDA adjustments
- Analysis of post-closing net working capital adjustments
- Tax structuring of transactions and analysis of the tax impact of proposed deal terms
- Buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence
- Calculation of “make whole” payments to mitigate stock vs. asset deal differences
- Organize and management of the virtual data room
Buy-Side Transaction Advisory Services
Our experts will take your acquisition across the finish line through an integrated approach that accelerates growth and profitability.
- Define acquisition strategy
- Target identification and qualification
- Facilitate information sharing and prelim assessment
- Structure and negotiate transaction
- Due diligence
- Deal execution and closing
- Post acquisition support
Sell-Side Transaction Advisory Services
Experienced advisors will lead the sales process and minimize disruption all while protecting value. We advise on a wide-variety of exit option strategies:
- Family transfer
- Sell to employees (ESOP)
- Sell to a third party
- Management buy out (MBO)
- Sale to existing partners
- Recapitalization/refinance
- Orderly liquidation
Recent Transactions

Look Electrical
Provided buy-side financial due diligence for Brighter Electrical in its investment in Look Electrical.

Wilder Systems
Provided buy-side financial due diligence for Cortado Ventures, LP in its investment in Wilder Systems.

Senslytics
Provided buy-side financial due diligence for Cortado Ventures, LP in its investment in Senslytics.

B & F Engineering
Provided buy-side financial due diligence for Crafton Tull in its investment in B & F Engineering.

Taxa Outdoors
Provided shareholder representative consulting services to New Road Capital Partners in their sale of Taxa Outdoors.

Head Country BBQ
Provided sell-side transaction consulting and support to Head Country in their sale to Old World Spices.

Sway
Provided sell-side transaction consulting and support to Cortado Ventures, LP in their sale to Sway.

PICKUP
Provided buy-side financial due diligence for New Road Capital Partners in its investment in PICKUP.

Quinn
Provided buy-side financial due diligence for New Road Capital Partners in its investment in Quinn.

Allergy Laboratories
Provided sell-side consulting and transaction support for Allergy Laboratories during its sale to ALK, Inc.

Drōv Technologies
Provided buy-side financial due diligence for Cortado Ventures, LP in its investment in Drov, Inc.
"It’s essential to have good advisors by your side."
“For owners who are buying or selling a business, it’s essential to have good advisors by your side. The Transaction Advisory Team at HoganTaylor has the expertise and sophistication you need for all financial issues, tax issues, technology, and processes involved on the buy-side or the sell-side.”
— Aaron Ackerman, CPA, CGMALead Transaction Advisory Services Partner

Meet the Transaction Advisory Team

Aaron Ackerman, CPA, CGMA
Lead Transaction Advisory Partner

Robert Wagner, CPA
Advisory Partner

Clay Glasgow, CPA, ABV, CFF, CFE
Advisory Partner

Cathy Reid, CPA
Tax Partner

Megan Rooney, CMA, CPA, CGMA
Advisory Partner

Tammy Williams, CPA
Advisory Partner

Glenn D. Vestrat, CVA
Advisory Senior Manager
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