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Decision
Determine what outcome the transaction is intended to create and whether a transaction is the best path.
Transaction Advisory
The transaction begins before the process does.
Gunn International helps CEOs, boards and owners determine whether to buy, sell, merge, separate or hold—and prepares the business so the market evaluates the enterprise that can exist, not merely the results currently reported.
From $25,000 per month · Select mandates may include an aligned success fee
Mandate types
Where the practice is engaged.
- Strategic alternatives
- Sale readiness
- Buy-side decision support
- Sell-side executive preparation
- Carve-outs and divestitures
- Integration and separation planning
- Management and board decision support
- Enterprise positioning
- Operating-performance preparation
- Buyer and investor narrative
Engagement phases
Decision. Readiness. Position. Execute. Transition.
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Readiness
Identify the operational, financial and strategic issues that will affect value, timing or buyer confidence.
03
Position
Frame the enterprise around durable earnings, strategic relevance, operating evidence and future optionality.
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Execute
Support management and the board through key decisions, diligence, negotiation preparation and transaction sequencing.
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Transition
Protect operating continuity through integration, separation or post-transaction change.
Legal, tax, audit, fairness-opinion, securities-placement and regulated investment-banking services remain with the company's licensed professional advisers. Gunn International works alongside those advisers on enterprise positioning, operating readiness and executive decision support.
From the CEOs
Shawn told the board what it didn't want to hear — that we weren't ready to sell — and then made the company worth selling. EBITDA up 175% over twelve months. I'd put him in the room on any decision that matters.
Every operator says they've done it before. Shawn had actually carried the P&L, actually done the deal, and it showed in how fast he got to the real question. He's the call I make before I sign anything.
Direct principal delivery
What outcome is the transaction supposed to create?
Start with the intended outcome, its timing and its consequence. Every inquiry is reviewed personally and held in confidence.