Growing Your Business

Arguably when canoeing you face the most risk getting in and out. The same applies to businesses and investing. You can’t get wet on the way in otherwise the entire experience could be dampened.

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We can help you execute acquisition strategies that keep you dry and defy the statistics that say acquisitions don’t create value. The statistics aren’t necessarily wrong, they’re based on a population that doesn’t adequately prepare. That’s where Bonfire Capital can help you.

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Target Identified: We can plug into your existing deal team to bring our experience, process and advice. Depending on where you are in the transaction process, we can start a deal model for valuation and financing purposes or assist you in completing financial due diligence.

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Our services are bespoke. Don’t need a sophisticated deal model or an exhaustive quality of earnings assessment? No problem, we can assist or advise in any way you need.

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Target Not Identified: If you haven’t identified an acquisition target yet, the first place to start is defining your acquisition criteria. Generally, your criteria will start with the obvious:

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• Structure: minority, control or buy-out transactions

• Geography: Canada / US / other

• Target Scope: specific industry, sector, capabilities, clientele, suppliers, etc.

• Target Size: generally referenced to revenue or EBITDA

• Investment Size: generally referenced to or equity investment size or enterprise value (enterprise value is the sum of net debt + equity)

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If you haven’t selected the target we can work with you to define your criteria and perform screening for targets.​