Corporate Finance Expertise

Financings
M&A

Capital Formation

Strategy, Execution & Advisory Roles

~12

Initial Public Offering Advisory(1)

~25

Equity Follow-On Offering Advisory(1)

7

Public Equity Offerings Executed(2)
Banker Selection, Negotiation of Deal Covers/Economics, Deal Marketing and Share Allocations

8

Completed Sellside M&A 
(sales, divestitures, mergers)(1)
Advised, Structured, Negotiated Sellside M&A Transactions

8

Private Equity and Debt Financings*

Capital Deployment

Strategy, Execution & Advisory Roles

~20

Completed Acquisitions(2)
Advised, Structured, Negotiated Buyside M&A Transactions

~12

Share Repurchase Programs(2)
Orchestration and Implementation of Entire Process

~5

Evaluation of Shareholder
Priorities for Deployment of
Excess Capital

50+

Accretion/Dilution and Deal Impact Models for Management and Board

30+

Development and Execution of IR Messaging of Capitalization Strategies

25+

Development and Implementation of M&A Communications Strategy

(1)Completed Deals / Headgate & Investment Banking Clients (2)Completed Deals & Programs / Headgate Clients


Critical Cross-Section of Corporate Finance and Shareholder Engagement Expertise

The majority of Claire’s transactional experience over 30+ years is defined by deal origination and strategy, scenario modeling, deal team orchestration, and deal execution – all without any influence by transaction “success fees” – all ensuring that her #1 role is to optimize the capital formation and capital allocation decisions by companies and their boards.

  • Ensuring the best value derived for the least amount of cost (advisor fees and gross spreads / offering discounts)
  • Offering the smartest decision-making tools to executive leadership teams and their boards
  • Prioritizing management’s time to serve the greatest positive impact
  • Optimization of company stakeholders
    • Knowing how to leverage the sellside (and investment bankers)
    • Knowing how to access and optimize the buyside (long-term anchor shareholders vs. providers of liquidity)

End-to-End Execution of Capital Raises, M&A, Stock Repurchases

  • Deal Evaluation: Extensive multi-variate scenario modeling 
    • Accretion/dilution of various deal structures and growth scenarios, valuation analyses 
    • Quantification of financial impacts of various financing and M&A alternatives
  • Deal Formation: Orchestrating the process, assembling the team
    • Negotiation of investment banking fees and cover economics, optimization of advisor / underwriting team and terms
    • Development and optimization of execution partners – who needs to be hired, and for how much $$
  • Deal Execution:  Experience executing multiple transaction types and structures
    • Negotiation of terms, LOIs, competitive analysis
    • Perform due diligence on M&A targets w/ management
    • Leading role in marketing strategy and investor allocations for equity financings
    • Determination of trading parameters (at various price/volume scenarios) in executing stock repurchases and ATMs, etc.

Tangible Results

  • Better, more impactful research coverage
  • Greater institutional ownership 
  • Higher valuation multiples
  • More successful deals (financings and M&A)
  • Best-in-class investor communications and shareholder engagement
    =    Company management and Board of Directors earn a stellar track record