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About Us
Paley Dixon, Inc. is a buy-side mergers & acquisitions advisor founded in 1979. Our clients include domestic and foreign private equity groups, hedge funds, and strategic acquirers. They engage us to find acquisition opportunities according to their specific investment needs.
Client interests range across a broad spectrum of industries. Their investment types include growth capital, buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate acquisitions, divestitures, minority positions, and privatizations. Investment size varies from $10 million to $5 billion.
Unlike investment banks and brokers that troll for listings seeking businesses to represent and market, we contact a company specifically on behalf of a buyer interested in that particular business. Although we represent our clients, we also serve the company's shareholders by bringing them a qualified and highly motivated buyer, enabling owners to obtain an optimum deal.
Through partnerships with well-established business development advisors and investors in China, we also assist clients with sourcing, negotiations, due diligence, and closings in China.
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A No-Cost and Confidential Alternative
to an Investment Bank
For owners or management considering a sale or privatization, Paley Dixon offers an effective, no-cost and confidential alternative to retaining an investment bank.
Investment banks generally seek businesses to market through an auction process. Unfortunately, competitors, vendors, customers and employees can quickly discover that the business is for sale, or that management is looking to privatize. This can negatively impact the business, especially if the auction is unsuccessful.
Furthermore, many qualified buyers are averse to participating in auctions. They prefer not to spend the time, money and effort to complete the due diligence necessary to submit an appropriate bid, only to find that theirs was not the winning proposal. They also prefer to familiarize themselves with a company and culture to determine the best way to increase value in conjunction with the owners or management, rather than going strictly by the numbers.
We are able to bring to the table a single motivated buyer willing to pay fair market value for a controlling or minority stake in a company - without the consequences of an auction. With a Confidentiality Agreement in place, only authorized parties are aware of the proposed transaction.
Unlike an investment bank, we are paid by our buyers, and do not look to company owners or management for any compensation whatsoever.
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