Transaction Advisory

Key & Company provides advisory services to clients who want a strong advocate for maximizing shareholder value. We are engaged by clients that recognize the value in retaining professionals with specific knowledge in the food and agriculture industries.

We assemble the capital resources, technical personnel, information resources, databases and contacts to achieve the financial and strategic objectives of our clients.

Client Examples Include

  • Biotechnology Firms
  • Branded Food Companies
  • Financial Institutions Focused on Agribusiness
  • Integrated Agribusiness
  • Meat and Poultry Processors
  • Private Equity Firms
  • Fresh Produce Companies
  • Tropical Fruit Companies
  • Venture Capital Firms

Engagement Examples: Completed engagements are offered below as examples of how we succeed for our clients

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers:
Two seed companies with complementary product lines wanted to merge their businesses and needed a financial advisor to value the respective interests of each and combine their interests.

Acquisitions:
An investment firm wanted assistance in targeting and acquiring companies for a consolidation of e-commerce sites in the food sector.

Sales and Divestitures

Sales:
The owner of a fast-growing branded food companywanted help in seeking a buyer for his business and needed to design a confidential process to achieve maximum value.

Divestiture:
A multi-national sweetener company wanted to accelerate the divestiture of a foreign subsidiary and wanted investment banking services to develop the market and execute the transaction.

Growth Capital

Equity Capital
A major California land and farming company wanted a new equity financing to enable the development of an entirely new business in real estate development. Key & Company assisted Management and the Board in valuing and structuring a strategic transaction with a major food processor that met the Company’s objectives.

Debt Capital:
A growing micronutrient manufacturer needed long-term capital to refinance short-term debt and fund capital expenditures for a new plant.

June, 2011

Key & Company LLC assists Calavo Growers with an Acquisition Transaction

March, 2011

Key & Company LLC Aligns with Beech Hill Securities, a New York-based Broker Dealer and Member of FINRA (Financial Institution Regulatory Authority)

January, 2011

David Key Delivers Address to Farm Foundation Annual Roudtable Meeting in Atlanta, GA

April, 2010

New York, NY, Pierre Lefebvre joins Advisory Board of Key & Company LLC