Investment Banking
Mergers and Acquisitions
SOVLINK’s Mergers & Acquisitions group has extensive experience raising debt and equity capital to finance leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, refinancing and management buyouts.
At SOVLINK LLC we offer the following M&A services:
- Potential targets / investors prospecting
- Evaluation of potential targets / assets / businesses
- Information & marketing support
- Development of investment strategy, predisposal business restructuring
- Financial engineering, structuring and timing of the deals
- Counterparty negotiations
- Due diligence and data rooms
- Assistance with legal documentation, settlement and closing
2008-2009
Sovlink LLC successfully closed five deals.
The Company acted as:
- an agent on behalf of the buyer facilitating the acquisition of the oilfield services company
- an agent on behalf of the buyer facilitating the acquisition of the controlling stake in the energy company within natural gas and oil sector
2006-2007
SOVLINK LLC successfully closed seven deals in the amount of over $350 million.
The Company acted as:
- exclusive financial consultant and an agent on behalf of the buyer facilitating the acquisition of several construction companies
- exclusive financial consultant and an agent on behalf of both parties facilitating a number of transactions pertaining to the acquisition of mining assets
- exclusive financial consultant and an agent on behalf of the buyer facilitating the acquisition of oilfield companies
2005
SOVLINK LLC successfully closed six deals in the amount of over $600 million.
The Company acted as:
- financial consultant
- exclusive financial advisor assisting with the establishment of a joint-venture rail transportation firm
- agent on behalf of the seller facilitating the sale of an oil production business
- agent on behalf of the seller facilitating the sale of a petroleum products and petroleum transportation businesses
2003-2004
The Company successfully closed nine deals totaling over $495 million involving following products and industries:
- oil & gas industry
- chemical industry
- engineering products
- petroleum products
Fairness Opinions and Valuations
Fairness Opinions are an essential part of many public company merger and acquisition transactions. They are also often needed on private placements of equity and insider transactions to provide assurance to a Board of Directors that the shareholders are being treated fairly.
SOVLINK LLC is well-suited to meet public company fairness opinion needs. We’re objective and, most importantly, we’re truly independent. We are not influenced by long-standing trading positions, research recommendations or holdings of large amounts of clients’ equity or debt securities. We do not perform audit work, which means conflicts are not an issue.
Objectivity is not the only reason why a SOVLINK LLCs’ fairness opinion is an especially valuable tool for Boards of Directors in meeting their fiduciary responsibilities. The professional experience of our team, coupled with our hands-on industry experience, enables us to deliver solutions to the most complex company-specific or industry problems.