Telsey Capital Group (TCG)

OVERVIEW

Telsey Capital Group LLC (“TCG”) provides financial advisory services to consumer companies and investors. We leverage our in-depth, comprehensive knowledge of the retail, apparel, restaurant, gaming, and other consumer sectors to assist clients in mergers and acquisitions, strategic analysis, and capital raising transactions. We employ a high level of rigor, thoroughness, and accuracy in servicing the needs of our clients. Our financial advisory services include:

M&A Advisory – due diligence, valuation, and introductions to buyers/sellers in corporate acquisition and divestiture transactions. All of our M&A Advisory work is underpinned by detailed strategic and financial analyses based on our proprietary and extensive knowledge of the industry.

Strategic Advisory – market dynamics, competitive positioning, expansion opportunities, and financial benchmarking. Our deep understanding of consumer trends, the players in the industry, and years of financial benchmarks gives TCG the ability to offer both quantitative and qualitative answers to clients’ strategic questions.

Financing Services – market equity and debt private placements to investors and participation in selling groups as part of a public offering. Our relationships with capital sources coupled with our singular focus on the consumer sector, including a dedicated salesforce, provides us with the ability to develop and market our clients’ “story” to investors in equity and debt private placements and public or private offerings.

Distribution of Equity Research – exclusive third party distribution of TAG’s acclaimed research including proprietary market research, models, databases, conferences, conference calls, management meetings along with in-depth equity research reports covering 96 companies in the consumer sector.

M&A ADVISORY

Clients engage TCG given our real-time, institutional knowledge of the consumer space and the senior level attention and commitment we provide. We add value in acquisition or divestiture transactions by applying our deep understanding of consumer companies, utilizing our strong research and analytical capabilities, and leveraging our extensive network of industry contacts.

Acquisitions – Our in-depth understanding of the consumer landscape enables us to evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities, identify viable acquisition candidates, assist in extensive due diligence, assess financial impacts of a transaction, and negotiate transaction terms.

Exclusive Sales – TCG helps clients manage the entire sale process by formulating key selling points, developing financial projections, determining the valuation, crafting the descriptive memorandum, identifying the likely acquirers, and negotiating the purchase agreement.

Due Diligence/Valuation – TCG has an extensive database of financial and valuation metrics dating back almost two decades. We also have developed strong relationships with the companies, management teams and other players (e.g. mall developers, vendors, sourcing agents, executive search firms, investors, etc.) in the consumer sector over the past 20 years. This gives TCG the unique ability to apply both qualitative and quantitative analysis critical to any due diligence or valuation process.

STRATEGIC ADVISORY

Companies and investors seek TCG’s advice given our insights into industry, sector and company trends, understanding of the competitive landscape, and extensive storehouse of qualitative and quantitative data and analyses. We assist companies in evaluating strategic alternatives such as market entry; partnerships and joint ventures; concept and product extensions; and growth opportunities through extensive primary and secondary research and rigorous financial analysis.

FINANCING SERVICES

TCG’s strong relationships with private equity firms, hedge funds, senior and subordinated lenders, mezzanine funds, and other institutional investors, provide access to a broad spectrum of potential capital sources. We offer two primary financing services:

Private Placement Agent – Acting as an agent in raising equity and debt financing for consumer companies, we assist in crafting a compelling investment rationale for investors.

Selling Group – Combining our industry and investor knowledge, we are well positioned to assist companies in communicating their “story” to institutional investors in any public or private offering.