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Shields & Company Massachusetts Investment Bankers Boston
Shields & Company Massachusetts Investment Bankers Boston
FINANCIAL SERVICES 

The Shields & Company's professional team has both general and specialized expertise in the following areas:

I. Mergers & Acquisitions including Recapitalizations

Shields & Company has conducted many transactions over a wide range of industries.  We have found that successful corporate sales, acquisitions, and recapitalizations occur when a disciplined and orderly process is followed.

Our professional staff is committed to an intense, sophisticated, and multi-step transaction process.  Our process maximizes value and financial consideration, while minimizing the risks for the client.  Our process is implemented uniformly across most industries since we have found that it generates the best results for our clients.

For many of Shields & Company’s clients, the appetite for additional equity capital is offset by the desire to optimize total invested capital while minimizing existing shareholder dilution.  At Shields & Company, our professional staff has close working relationships with many of the institutional capital sources located throughout the United States and internationally. This group includes: senior debt lenders, subordinated debt capital sources, private equity, and venture capital.

Our interaction with commercial banks, mezzanine lenders, and the private equity community has also increased over the years, such that we communicate regularly with these capital sources.

II. Business Valuations and Fairness Opinions

Shields & Company is one of the most highly respected investment banks in Boston in providing these services and assumes assignments to provide its clients with professional valuations.  Our professional staff has over 50 years of combined valuation and fairness opinion experience across a broad range of industries.  Shields & Company has completed hundreds of business, securities, and intellectual property valuations.  Shields & Company has also provided litigation support and expert testimony in a variety of matters involving securities valuation issues. Certain of our principals are members of the American Society of Appraisers.

The types of valuations we regularly conduct are:

  • Tax Planning and Reporting
    • Estate and gift tax valuations
    • Nonqualified deferred compensation – Sec. 409A
    • Valuations of securities donated to a charity – Sec. 170
  • Financial Reporting
    • Goodwill impairment – SFAS 142
    • Incentive compensation and options – SFAS 123R
    • Purchase price allocations – SFAS 141
  • Valuations to Support Reorganizations
  • ESOPs
  • Litigation Support
    • Shareholder disputes
    • Divorce
    • Expert testimony
III. Financial Advisory Services

Shields & Company frequently assumes an advisory role in our clients’ major financings and strategic decisions. We offer the following corporate finance services to support these client needs.

  • Analysis of capital structure and negotiation of bank and other institutional borrowings
  • Corporate governance
  • Evaluation of corporate capital structure
  • Evaluation of strategic alternatives
  • Evaluation of tax-free spin-offs
  • Going private transactions
  • Repurchase of a company’s common stock
Designer AQ Websites 

SHIELDS & COMPANY, INC. 890 WINTER STREET WALTHAM, MA 02451
Phone: 781-890-7033 Fax: 781-890-7034 Website: www.shieldsco.com