Burnham investment bankers serve as trusted senior advisors to business owners, top corporate officers and boards of directors, helping them devise strategies for enhancing liquidity and/or shareholder value. With decades of deal experience, each of our Managing Directors knows how to place a value on businesses, their segments and the underlying securities. And we have the infrastructure and team to get the job done.
Burnham investment bankers have established themselves to be among the industry’s most experienced, responsive and professional. Our broad network of corporate and financial sponsor relationships, and our knowledge of the capital markets, allow us to shape strategic financial alternatives, suggest and structure business combinations, identify capital sources, negotiate terms and arrange injections of capital. As an integral part of Burnham Financial Group and the firm’s 70-year history (together with predecessor firms), we blend relationship value with creativity during each assignment. Our investment bankers think entrepreneurially and execute with traditional care: we want our clients to focus on running their businesses, while we suggest creative and time-tested solutions for today’s M&A and capital markets.
We further differentiate our advisory services from those of our competitors in the following respects:
Senior level attention and experience.
Our Managing Directors participate in all facets of each assignment, from initial assessments of the possibilities to putting our recommendations into action. Often, to maximize value for our clients and their transactions, assignments will be led by two Managing Directors.
Objective advice with a long-term perspective.
We provide straightforward, intelligent advice. We seek to recommend strategies for enhancing shareholder value or liquidity--or other financial strategies--that we would pursue ourselves if we were in our client’s shoes. This means that we are prepared to advise our clients against pursuing business combinations that we believe do not meet that standard.
A personalized, relationship approach.
Your best interests and long term goals become our priority. We focus on strategic and business combination advice for middle market firms, providing personal attention, responsiveness and freedom from bureaucracy. These are Burnham’s hallmarks. Our track record speaks for itself, earning Burnham a reputation proven by referrals and repeat business.
Independence and confidentiality.
We never let expediency compromise the best outcome. We do not underwrite securities or act as a lender. We can thus sidestep the potential conflicts that may arise from these activities at larger, more diversified competitors. In addition, our commitment to discretion, and the size of our firm, enable us to provide our clients with strict confidentiality.