Sell the Business | Merge | Acquire | IPO | Restructure | Evaluate Strategic Alternatives
Extraordinarily Experienced Financial Advisory for
Owners | Board Directors | Top Management
We Teach You to Improve Results for Stakeholders
33 years. Evaluating hundreds of companies, financial, and transaction scenarios; interviewing thousands of executives. Scores of deals closed.
We will start sooner and stay until after closing to assure you realize the best equity value recovery obtainable for you under current capital market conditions.
Our most important client intake criterion: You Must be Teachable.
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Kane & Company is the tradename of Transactiondrivers LLC Member: FINRA | SIPC
Your Success is My Success!
I thoroughly enjoy extracting realizable value for YOU from your business equity. I'd much rather work with you one-on-one to achieve your goals than assign and supervise apprentice and journeymen deal managers to work with you.
I teach in every engagement. I teach YOU to make your own informed choices. Business sales. Mergers and Acquisitions. IPOs. Restructurings. Evaluating Strategic Alternatives.
Most business owners, board directors, top management and junior private equity staff, lawyers, and accountants can profit significantly from the valuable knowledge I've accumulated through decades of trial, error and disciplined observation.
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Unfair Advantages for Businesses of Any Size
Engage Kane & Company to advise on your deal
Let's talk about your situation and see if Kane is the right choice for helping you prepare for, and execute, the transaction that fulfills your strategic financial goals.
Best for projected deals valued over $100 million
1-on-1 Coaching to get you through deal issues
Frame the issue(s). We'll see if I can give you an "unfair advantage" based on 30 years of experience, right up to yesterday.
Best for projected deals valued over $5 million
Learn something extremely useful
Many clients (and their M&A lawyers and accountants) suggest I write a book to share what they consider exceedingly useful practical knowledge for owners, top managers and board directors ACCOUNTABLE for deal outcomes.
Take command of your sale, IPO, merger, acquisition, restructuring.
Grant Langston
CEO of eHarmony (former)
now CEO and Board Member of Warehouse Exchange
Michael Kane has the most experience of anyone you'll likely meet in making successful deals - an astounding range of business types, business conditions, and buyers. He knows what's possible, and what is a waste of time.
Andy Laats
Chairman, Nixon, Inc.
Mike is like 4 or 5 board members in one person. Finance? Yep. Ops? Yep. Strategy? Yep. He's seen it all, but if you can come up with something he hasn't seen before, he can figure it out quickly. Responsive. Responsible. Solution-oriented, positive and calm in every situation.
Mike knows what boards/owners need from management and can lead management teams in that direction. Mike can find and extract value. His personal style and depth of experience allow him to be an accepted partner for management teams.
Dan Erickson
CEO of Elevated Careers
Kane teaches an M&A Master Class to everyone involved, if you're interested in learning (and if you are not, that's your loss). He brings a unique blend of experience, process, discipline, creativity and intelligence that you're just not going to get from anybody else.
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