Category: Blog Posts
-
George Davis & Baltimore Oriole Trey Mancini
George Davis to Evergreen is Strategic Advisor who is well-known for his success in investing, building, and managing biotech, IT, and software companies, often from the start-up stage. He is an active leader in the tech and innovation community, serving on a number of boards, including Betamore, UMBC’s Research Park Corporation, Association for Enterprise Growth,…
-
Evergreen Advises TSSi on its sale to Noble
Evergreen Advisors Capital, a middle-market investment bank, is pleased to announce that Tactical & Survival Specialties, Inc. (“TSSi”) has been acquired by Noble Sales Co. Inc. d/b/a Noble Supply & Logistics (“Noble”). Evergreen Advisors Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor to TSSi with legal advice provided by Flora Pettit PC. Noble, an industry leader…
-
Valuation Team Spotlight: Pat Lowry
Evergreen Advisors team’s includes a multidisciplinary team of experts that are dedicated to ensuring our client’s success. For this feature, we interviewed Pat Lowry, Managing Director of Business Valuation in Evergreen Advisors Corporate Advisory Practice, who has over 20 years of experience in complex business valuation, estate and gift planning, and transaction advisory matters. Pat…
-
Evergreen Advisors Capital serves as Financial Advisor to G2SF
Evergreen Advisors Capital, a middle-market investment bank, announced today that it advised G2SF, Inc. (“G2SF”) on its sale to Gunnison Consulting Group, Inc. (“Gunnison”). Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, G2SF INC. is a Government focused IT consultancy and enterprise solution provider with core competencies in IT Service Management (ITSM), Mobility Engineering and Management, Security Engineering and…
-
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Kalocyte
In this Entrepreneur Spotlight, we highlight KaloCyte, a company transplanted from St. Louis, Missouri now located in Baltimore at the University of Maryland BioPark. KaloCyte is developing a solution for when blood is not available. They have demonstrated proof of concept for ErythroMer™, a dried, bio-inspired artificial red blood cell substitute envisioned for use as an…
-
Fair Market Value Vs. Strategic Value: Why You Should Know the Difference
As business valuation professionals, we are often tasked with determining the value of a block of stock in a company, typically a partial interest, for purposes of gift or estate tax planning, stock option issuance, ESOP compliance, or marital disputes. The appropriate standard of value for such assignments is “Fair Market Value.” Fair Market Value…
-
Evergreen Advises Pathsensors on Sale To Smiths Detection
Evergreen Advisors Capital, a middle-market investment bank, is pleased to announce that PathSensors, Inc. (“PathSensors” or the “Company”) has been acquired by Smiths Detection (“Smiths”). Evergreen Advisors Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor to PathSensors with legal advice provided by Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP. PathSensors is a leading biotechnology solutions and environmental testing…
-
Goodwill Impairment – The New Reality For Retail-Based Businesses
On March 18, 2020, YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), a worldwide owner and operator of restaurant brands, acquired The Habit Restaurants, Inc. (NasdaqGM: HABT or “Habit”) for approximately $408 million in cash. At the time, Habit operated 245 company-owned and 31 franchised Habit Burger Gill restaurants in the U.S. and in China. According to YUM’s…
-
M&A and Funding: What Next?
We are in uncharted territories given the impact of the Pandemic at many levels ranging from our physical health to the mental challenges brought to bear on each of us to the significant impact on our economy. Venture Funding In the first quarter of 2020, companies in the region raised 227 million in venture…
-
Closing Location Strategy Deals Requires New Tools
The Coronavirus Recession is forcing even the most well-capitalized companies to deliver cost savings across their supply chains. To weather the crisis, companies must reassess opportunities to source products and services domestically, reduce exposure to regional labor market disruptions, navigate ongoing rent, utilities, debt service obligations, and redeploy their workforces across their physical and digital…
-
Maryland businesses will need more than a federal stimulus to recover from coronavirus pandemic
By JEFF ROSEN and MIKE GILL FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN | APR 22, 2020 The impact of COVID-19 on Maryland’s economy and quality of life has been significant and will cause the state’s economic recovery to be fragile. That’s because, unlike many states, there are more small and mid-size businesses in Maryland, with roughly 90%…
-
Market Plunge Due to COVID-19 May Offer Unique Planning Opportunities
With the rapid spread of COVID-19 taking hold in the U.S. and across the world, publicly-traded stock prices have taken a beating. Additionally, as business, economic, and political uncertainties increase, private valuations in certain types of securities and industries will certainly take a hit this year. Although this may cause temporary pain in the form…
-
Business Valuation & Coronavirus Impact
March madness canceled. Ice hockey thawed. No baseball. Schools closed. Restaurants offering curbside pickup. Breweries doing delivery. Supply chain disruption. Hoarding. Entire companies working remotely. No toilet paper on the shelves! Trump. Congress. COVID-19 vaccine. Social distancing. Stay at home. Olympics delayed. N95 masks. SXSW scratched. Distance learning. Concerts delayed. Disney locked. Group meetings? Fuhgeddaboutit!…
-
Food Fights, LIFO or FIFO, Faith and Trust, and a Vision for Baltimore
I met with Bill twice to do this interview. The first time we met was February 26th. Just three days later, we had our first Coronavirus death in the United States. Everyone’s life has been altered in some way, including the 7,000 team members of T. Rowe Price-they’re fortunate to have “Coach Stromberg” leading. Bill,…
-
Evergreen Advisors Acquires Baker-Meekins
Evergreen Advisors, a middle market Investment Bank and Corporate Advisory Firm, with offices in both Columbia, MD and McLean, VA, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Baker-Meekins. As part of the transaction, James Webb, ASA and Shawn Moxley, ASA will become employees of Evergreen and Ross Adams, CFA will serve as a consultant. Based…
