Private Equity and Venture Capital Firms

KraftCPAs has the diverse range of technical acumen, industry knowledge, and extensive transaction experience required to help private equity groups and venture capital firms when it’s time to develop strategic growth plans, evaluate business opportunities, execute deals, and provide ongoing support after a transaction.

Experience

The KraftCPAs transaction advisory team has extensive experience with leveraged buyouts, minority interest transactions, going-private transactions, mezzanine and senior financings, executive compensation matters, leveraged dividends, and recapitalizations.

Many of our executives are adroit negotiators, having developed this skill set through decades of experience working with private equity groups and venture capital firms, as well as attorneys, bankers, and investors, on both the buy-side and sell-side of transactions.

And with more than 275 team members at KraftCPAs and our affiliates, we can provide the experience and expertise you need before, during, and after the deal is done, including services in tax, accounting, external, internal and IT audit, valuation, financial modeling, research, and business planning.

Services

Buy-Side

• Due diligence
• Quality of historical earnings assessments
• Industry and competitive analysis
• Valuation and price modeling
• Purchase price allocation
• Tax planning
• Fairness opinions
• Transaction accounting
• Post-deal support, including post-closing disputes, and post-merger integration

Sell-Side / Portfolio Management

• Business and growth strategy
• Deal advisory
• Capital formation
• Exit and succession planning
• Valuation updates and modeling
• Cash flow analysis
• Value enhancement projects