Clifton Gardiner & Company, LLC is a consulting firm actively working with companies on mergers, acquisitions and capital formation. Our specialty is media, entertainment, communications and Internet companies. We act as business brokers in facilitating the sale or acquisition of a property. We have long standing contacts with buyers and sellers, venture capitalists, lenders, investors and entrepreneurs.

Clifton Gardiner & Company, LLC becomes a member of your team and works with you on an exclusive basis, offering confidential, objective and diligent services. We do a detailed evaluation of your business or the acquisition target to assist in developing a realistic valuation assessment. 

Clifton Gardiner & Company can provide valuable advice on the timing of a sale or acquisition, on the valuation and price, and innovative expertise on deal structuring and financing. Acting on behalf of its client, CGC can work through the issues in a stronger posture, so that the relationship between the principals is unaffected to a great degree.

Selling a business:

• CGC will prepare a comprehensive and accurate memorandum that is properly structured and designed for maximum impact.
• Clifton Gardiner & Company will work to create a competitive environment and to properly and accurately showcase your company.  We will develop the broadest possible list of acquirers to avoid the risk of negotiating with only a single entity. This will be done with a minimum of disruption to management’s operation of their company.
• Clifton Gardiner & Company will develop a confidential and professional valuation of the enterprise to ensure receiving the maximum realistic and achievable sale price.
• CGC will keep the identity of the company confidential whenever possible, minimizing disruption among employees and clients.

Buying a business:

• Clifton Gardiner & Company will assist in defining target companies that fit the jointly developed acquisition criteria.
• CGC will utilize its national contacts in developing a list of possible acquisitions.
• We will make the initial contact to determine if there is an interest in a deal, and then obtain sufficient initial information to allow our client to make a sound decision about continuing the process and initiating discussions.
• Clifton Gardiner & Company will assist in arranging any necessary financing or additional equity. This will be done simultaneously so that the process, through closing, will move as quickly as possible.
• We will be actively and diligently involved in the entire structuring and closing process.

Under our client’s direction, we typically are in the role of lead negotiator. Our many years of transaction experience, our negotiation skills and our problem solving capabilities will help avoid pitfalls and problems that may arise during a merger, acquisition or financing process.