Buyer Services

Bluestone also represents corporate and private investors in acquiring businesses. Such assignments may involve acquisition searches or targeted projects.

Acquisition Searches
Corporations actively seeking acquisition candidates retain Bluestone to conduct searches for strategic targets. In such assignments, the Firm helps the client:

Formulate acquisition criteria
Identify primary targets and initiate contact
Negotiate the terms of the transaction
Maintain client anonymity
Raise acquisition financing

Management Buyouts

Bluestone advises the management of companies in formulating buyout plans. Such situations may include advising management on alternative courses of action, presenting the plan to the Board of Directors, negotiating the terms of the transaction, and arranging financing. Through our extensive network of resources, we are able to raise both the debt and equity that is required to support management teams that may have limited resources. By utilizing Bluestone, the management group protects its delicate relationship with the Board of Directors and the shareholders of the company. In working closely with management, Bluestone anticipates the probable responses by shareholders and Boards of Directors in order to prepare appropriate actions by the buyout group. Bluestone is aware of the dynamics governing shareholder decisions and can steer transactions away from untenable outcomes. We also work with corporate buyers to formulate acquisition criteria, identify and contact acquisition candidates, determine value, negotiate the acquisition terms, arrange the necessary financing, assist in financial due diligence and provide management of the transaction process. At Bluestone,, all of our assets are at your disposal. Structuring the best acquisition - not unlike managing a company - requires expertise. Success is too important to trust to anything less.