Schlagwort-Archive: reverse mergers

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Over The Counter Bulletin Board With Attitude, What?

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I’ve been involved with more mergers and acquisitions and IPOs than I can even count. I’ve been called many names when I’m getting involved with corporate turnaround consulting but the most common of these terms are: arrogant, cocky and hardheaded. I take these names as a feather in the cap and a notch on the belt because the worst thing that can happen is that a company or board of directors hires a wimp or pushover. Having swagger when walking into a negotiation session or presentation makes all the difference. Refuse to lose and have the contacts to back up your moves.

Solar Panel CEO’s and executives take note…it’s ok to be cocky of you can back it up with performance. My clients love me. The people on the receiving end of my firm’s negotiations hate me (until they hire me on their next project). My hate of losing exceeds my love of winning and I’ll never stop until the clients pull me off of the project or until the transaction is done. This mentality is a must for today’s executive and corporate consultant.

I’m not saying this to impress anyone or to get more business. I’m trying to express to new CEOs of public companies and pre public companies that you have to be fierce. When you step in a room everyone has to feel it. Your presence has to be loathed by some and the epitome of curiosity by others. Keep them guessing.

Demonstrate loyalty to your client and make competitors fear being on the receiving end of your attention and above all, be calculated with your moves and stealthy with your strategy. Don’t speak until you can level the room with what you have to say and understand the reality that for every action there will be a reaction and for every strategic move you make on your clients behalf, there will be countermeasures taken by the opposition.

It’s ok to stay up at night distracted by ideas that will press the throttle peddle on behalf of your client. It’s a forgivable sin to force-feed strategies and alliances to your client that will help them get a competitive edge over their competition. And above all remember this, at the end of the day in global commerce the winning side achieves more than domination but the ability to keep and create jobs and grow through acquisition which creates more jobs and profitability. Arrogance and the refusal to lose is the beginning of this entire process. Get it or get out!

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Merger Firm – Merger Reverse – Merger Reverse Triangular

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Growing your company sales by adding promotional and sales agents and increasing your marketing exposure is an obvious way to beef up revenues but few companies consider the virtually instantaneous power of strategic alliances. Creating strategic partnerships with ‚would be‘ rivals and companies that cater to your business genre can help you rapidly take possession of your market.

If you are a printer, team up with brochure designers, ink and paper distributors, advertising firms and print solution resellers. If you are a solar panel technology company then team up with corporations who have government grants for research and development and other alternative energy groups such as wind energy turbine technology firms, Department of Energy contractors etc. By teaming up with other companies and combining resources. You can stimulate growth in every area of your business. Look at each individual product and service you offer.

Now think of other companies who you can team up with to share resources. Make sure you create win/win opportunities for everyone involved as this is the only way to truly take advantage of this type of partnership. Don’t look at this concept as leaching off of other company’s resources, to the contrary, carefully researched and structured alliances will transform the here and now as well as future business of all parties involved. Strategic alliances will also enhance your appeal as an ‚invest-able‘ business to venture capital firms and angel investors.

Think about it. You have a carefully constructed and managed corporate infrastructure. You’ve taken the steps to make sure that each of your ‚C‘ level executives has been promoted as the ‚who’s who‘ in the industry to speed up investor due diligence and increase customer confidence. You’ve carefully selected a board of directors that will effectively and actively guide you through the turbulent industry environment with their proven track record of success. And you’ve even initiated and solidified powerful partnerships that enhance your business concept and strengthen the longevity of your company.

You are now ready for expansion, investors, venture capital firms, taking your company public, attracting a professional CEO or CFO and practically anything your company is setting out to do.

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Reverse Mergers Into Shells – Plastic Palm Trees and The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Clean OTCBB shells that are ready for a reverse merger are like the legends of White Elephants, the Chupacabre and Bigfoot. Everyone has heard of them but no one has seen one. I have seen so many fly-by-night consulting firms pop up in the past year it’s depressing. Of course the claim to have 17 years in the industry with 100’s of reverse mergers tomb stoned on a page that ‚they just can’t remember the link to‘.

I’ll tell you what, if you’re sold on going public with a shell and won’t consider any other way, make it easy on yourself walk into your local Burger King, give the cashier $200,000, lay down behind a Mack Truck that is backing out of a parking space and fill your bathtub with razorblades and rubbing alcohol and dive in face first, be sure to set yourself on fire before the dive. Believe me, the above is far less painful than a messy reverse merger.

Sure, solid shells exist but it will cost you a ton of equity, $500k + in upfront fees and an ongoing Sumo Wrestling match with FINRA and inherited shareholders. That said, I have seen a few successful reverse mergers into Pink Sheet shells with the intent of qualifying for the BB. The bad news is, they didn’t and don’t have a chance in hell of ascending to another exchange (well maybe Frankfurt and other pump and dump domains) and the good news is, they did successfully merge while simultaneously being 80% diluted within three months with a par value of .007 per share. So they succeeded in merging but completely failed at the attempt to fund their company or secure actual trading volume.

Going public is a big decision and if done properly can be incredibly rewarding for the company, shareholders and the company’s strategic partners who find themselves in the spotlight and mentioned on press releases, webinars, roadshows and other investor relations branding and promotion. Do yourself a favor, if you care about your company at all; if you want to survive and thrive in the public realm and don’t have $200m in annual revenues, file an S1. It takes a few months longer but it’s a move that will create a foundation for a customized filing.

Consulting firms that actually care about their clients and truly make their money on the back end once the company is public as opposed to front heavy fee oriented structures will always do an S1 to preserve the longevity of their client’s company. Think about it!

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Taking Company Public? Pros And Cons Of Reverse Mergers & Direct Filings

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Now more than ever public shell predators are out in full force taking advantage of CEOs and corporate executives who need to go public in order to gain more influence in the marketplace, raise capital, grow through acquisition and bring on prize executives with share ownership.

Many uninformed board members and ‚C‘ level executives who take the route of a reverse merger fall prey to shell selling hoodlums who retain a sizable portion of the company after transfer as well as cover up liens, free trading shares and other issues that will have a tragic effect on the new owners of this shell that will soon crumble after the merger is complete.

Another issue that reverse mergers have is that the original investors in the entity want out and the second the stock price achieves even the most modest of gains it will virtually immediately plummet due to the original shareholders liquidation of their shares. This liquidation will typically take the company into the black hole of no return as the share price will never rebound and the once profitable company is now a tumbling house of cards.

I’m not saying that reverse mergers can’t work. There are some solid firms out there who set up quality shells for reverse merger activity but before proceeding with a merger, one should contract with a solid corporate strategies consultant for references and industry insider information.

Customized filings, on the other hand, have fewer draw backs but there are still problem areas. In taking a company public via direct filing one should choose a firm with a solid track record for rapid completion of the s1 comments phase and FINRA approval. The third party audit should be done by a firm proven in completing this solution in a timely manner. Most lawyers and consulting firms take 10 to 12 months to take a corporation public on the OTCBB. But there are some elite, turn-key ‚Go Public‘ facilitators that do so many of these transactions that it will only take 3 to 4 months for the entire process.

At the end of the day both reverse mergers into public shells and customized, direct filings are viable options for achieving a public trading symbol and raise capital and all the other pros and cons that come and go with having a public entity but before moving forward one should be well read and in the know of the good, the bad and the ugly with both routes.

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