Investment Banking Advisory

Expert Guidance For Crucial Capital Decisions

We’re here to help with the big decisions that determine the direction of an organization. The financial and strategic decisions that might include accepting outside investment, negotiating with potential investors, merging with a competitor, or transitioning to successor ownership.

Whatever the case, we’ll help by guiding you through one of the most complex transactions you will face as an organizational leader or business owner.

For Small To Mid-Sized Organizations

A Different Kind of Investment Banking Advisor

At Oaklyn Consulting, unlike traditional investment banking advisors, we work as consultants — not brokers — to provide expert guidance for small to mid-sized organizations, both commercial and nonprofit. We help where traditional investment banking advisors cannot.

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  • Mergers
  • Acquisitions
  • Capital Raises
  • Recapitalizations
  • Joint Ventures

Who We Serve

Founder & Family-Owned Businesses

Our mission is to support entrepreneur owner-managers with the complexities of making important financial and strategic decisions. Our expertise in working with business owners allows us to provide an unbiased perspective as you navigate through the tough choices that come with growing your company. Whether it’s weighing the pros and cons of accepting outside investment or merging with a competitor, we’re here to help. Our team of experienced consultants understands that no two businesses are alike, and we tailor our approach to fit your specific needs.

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Venture Capital Portfolio Companies

We specialize in providing professional expertise and guidance to venture capital-backed companies whose situations are not well served by traditional investment banking firms. Perhaps deal size, special stakeholder considerations, financial distress, or unique deal opportunities have caused transaction advice to be hard to find. Our approach is to tailor transaction engagements, focusing on independent advice and scoping the work to meet your budget. Our team is here to help you manage risk, negotiate wisely, and chart the best path forward, deal or no deal. Put your investor’s mind at ease and let Oaklyn Consulting be your trusted advisor.

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Nonprofits

We understand nonprofits sometimes grapple with mission-enhancing opportunities or needs requiring significant organizational change. That’s why we specialize in providing expert consulting services to help make critical business decisions. Our team is dedicated to helping nonprofits navigate complex financial and strategic decisions. From buying or selling operating divisions, exploring creative approaches to leadership succession, negotiating with lenders or impact investors, or merging organizations, we’re here to provide impartial advice and support.

Investment Bankers

Oaklyn Consulting is your trusted partner for transactions in your pipeline that don’t meet your criteria for deal size minimums or fee certainty. Our firm provides white-glove investment banking support to businesses and nonprofits on an hourly model in order to serve clients whose situations do not work for other advisors. Our focus is to complement your work—never compete with it. We do not take on clients that are otherwise attractive investment banking engagements. We help our investment banking partners strengthen their business development process by enabling them to say ‘yes’ to more referrals by being a solution for what to do with the ones that do not fit. And we boost their business development pipelines with reverse referrals of qualifying deal opportunities, packaged small business acquisitions to speak with acquirers about, and a revenue-sharing program.

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Strategic Exit Advisors

You spend years helping a business owner build a company worth selling. When it’s finally time to run the transaction, you want to stay involved, not hand your client to an outside firm you don’t fully know. Oaklyn Consulting is the M&A execution partner for strategic exit advisors. We complement your work, never compete with it, and keep you involved through close. And because we work as consultants, not brokers, and never for success fees, you can refer with confidence: we’ll give your client honest advice, deal or no deal.

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Experience the Oaklyn Consulting Difference

We really appreciated your willingness to adapt to the unique nature of our engagement — i.e., advising both sides — rather than forcing us into a typical approach.”

It was a very helpful professional experience. You are very knowledgeable and explained how you work transparently, even offering that you were probably not a good match. That is rare. Most people try to force-fit their model to every opportunity.”

As I stated many times during our conversations, I so appreciate you and your team for interceding throughout this transaction. It made such an incredible difference!”

Excellent setup and organization of data as well as business-level guidance for transactions.”

Candidly — I appreciated that you were thoughtful about when and where to engage knowing that we had sensitivities to fees. It often felt like you’d give us tools we could use to work through things on our own and then jump back in as needed to add value where you uniquely could.”

You continue to be my go-to for business owners thinking about their business options. I appreciate your approach and everyone I have sent you has said good things.”

We Help Clients Succeed At Their Most Complex Transactions

When running a business, making the right and crucial capital decisions can be the difference between success and failure. With Oaklyn Consulting by your side, you can confidently make the decisions that will shape the future of your business.

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