Greenfield Research

At Amiral Advisors, Greenfield Research is one of our premier value-added services for both industry and market research, including target company identification and screening.

Industry and Market Research: We provide comprehensive research services to help clients investigate and validate potential market opportunities for growth. Our research provides clients with valuable industry and market intelligence to assess market size and potential, growth drivers, trends, future opportunities, risks, considerations and key players among other pertinent information.

• Understand client’s strategic goals and objectives
• Obtain clear definition of the industry and markets of interest
• Perform industry and market research to gain intelligence on critical factors such as market size and potential, growth drivers, trends, future opportunities, risks, considerations and key players
• Perform a competitive analysis of the key market players including an assessment of their market position, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks

Research and Screening of Potential Transaction Partners or Acquisition Targets: A large percentage of strategic transactions are unsuccessful because of the lack of diligent research to identify the most ideal target companies to partner with, invest in or acquire. Our proprietary research services include comprehensive processes and procedures to identify and screen for the most suitable target companies for our clients to consider. As part of our research services, we also arrange for on-site visits to selected target companies. We strongly believe that the combination of our extensive research and company visits is the most effective, exclusive and proactive way to identify and evaluate potential partners and target companies for any strategic transaction.

• Obtain a detailed understanding of our client’s business strategy, goals and objectives
• Assist clients in defining detailed research criteria and parameters that best describe the ideal target company or strategic partners
• Research and identify target companies or strategic partners based on defined search criteria
• Assess and screen potential target companies or strategic partners
• Prioritize target companies or strategic partners and assist in the selection process
• Arrange visits to selected target companies or strategic partners
• Determine ideal target company or strategic partner based on consideration of client’s strategic goals and objectives, potential synergies, organizational and cultural fit and potential feasibility of the transaction

Exchange Listing & Migration

Amiral Advisors' Exchange Listing and Migration Advisory Service helps emerging companies access public capital markets in the U.S. and the Greater China region. In addition, we assist publicly listed clients in the U.S., Europe or Asia to "up-list" to larger and more prestigious stock exchanges or move between international exchanges (i.e., from the U.K. AIM Market to the U.S. NASDAQ) to achieve their corporate objectives.

Benefits of migrating to a more robust stock exchange include, but are not limited to:

• Improved stock liquidity,
• Easier to raise capital, and
• Access to different global markets.

Fundraising

Amiral Advisors leverages its experience in global credit markets and its international network to assist clients with their funding needs. Whether you are looking for a line of credit, debt or equity financing, Amiral Advisors can help you find an optimal solution.

We arrange financing to empower our emerging and mature clients to:

• Fund growth initiatives or M&A activities,
• Pursue buy-out opportunities,
• Refinance existing obligations, and
• Provide liquidity for founders and shareholders.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

Amiral Advisors' professionals and executives have extensive transaction experience, operating expertise and banking knowledge to guide our clients in throughout their lifecycle. We provide value-added M&A Advisory Service for clients ranging from successful entrepreneurs, middle-market companies and Fortune 500 corporations.

Our typical client profiles include, but are not limited to:

• Successful entrepreneurs seeking to sell their companies,
• Second generation family-owned businesses with plans to exit their business in order to cash in gains,
• General Managers of mid-sized companies seeking partnerships to expand globally,
• The Management Team of U.S. private/public companies contemplating an entry strategy to China, and
• Chairmen of Hong Kong-listed manufacturing companies planning to expand their reach and distribution into the U.S.

Due Diligence

Amiral Advisors provides comprehensive business and financial due diligence of selected target companies for strategic partnerships, joint ventures and merger and acquisition transactions.
Our Due Diligence Services include:

• Assess the use of relevant accounting policies, procedures and adherence to industry-accepted standards
• Assess accounting and business systems utilized
• Identify key business drivers, sources of value and risks that impact the business
• Analyze and understand trends in the historical financials
• Review key performance metrics achieved
• Review quality of revenues, earnings and supporting information
• Identify financial abnormalities that may affect cash flow and earnings
• Assess the financial health of the company
• Review and validate key balance sheet items
• Review off-balance sheet assets and liabilities
• Identify unrecorded, unrecognized or continent liabilities
• Analyze cash flow needs and requirements, including capital expenditures and working capital
• Identify Pre-Closing and Post-Closing Issues, including purchase price adjustment mechanisms

Corporate Valuation Services

We perform corporate valuation advisory services for clients to support their investment or purchase price decisions for strategic partnerships, joint ventures and merger and acquisition transactions. Our professionals have extensive backgrounds in core valuation concepts and have prior experience from global accounting firms, independent valuation firms and nationally recognized investment banks. Our valuation service is catered to our clients’ needs.

• Determine the appropriate corporate or business valuation methodologies for the valuation purpose
• Building and reviewing financial forecast models, if needed
• Determine corporate value for buy- and sell-side transaction purposes
• Assist clients in identifying opportunities that will maximize the company’s value for sell-side transactions

Corporate Finance Advisory

Amiral Advisors offers a wide range of corporate finance advisory services to help your companies with your critical finance and operations functions. Whether you are trying to turn around stagnant operations, seeking new ideas for your next phase of growth, or exploring ways to expand through mergers and acquisitions domestically or internationally, we at Amiral Advisors can help.

Our experienced professionals have been actively involved in numerous organizations in both Asia Pacific and the U.S. to explore opportunities, analyze risks, evaluate growth plans and execute expansion strategies, we understand the challenges firms of different sizes face and what it will take to maximize shareholder returns.

We bring innovative ideas into each situation and apply an approach that integrates both global best practices and large-company methodology. We are your premier business advisors with extensive global resources and a diversified industry experiences that will help you navigate an increasingly complex business landscape.

Our Corporate Finance Advisory Services Include:

• Business Valuation Service
• Outsourced Executives Service
• Corporate Development Advisory
• Business Turnaround Advisory
• Merger Integration Advisory

Compliance & Regulatory Filing Services

We offer comprehensive services and tools developed with an intimate understanding of the regulatory landscape and any challenges your business may face.

Our team of professionals have provided more than 5,000 hours of compliance and regulatory filing services for public companies. Our process includes identifying, documenting, testing, and remediating internal controls over financial reporting, as well as serving as a liaison between your Management team and the company’s external auditors when appropriate. With our proven methodology, we have saved clients considerable time and money when compared with traditional approaches.

Amiral Advisors provides value-added services in the following areas:

• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance/Consulting
• SEC Reporting/Compliance/Consulting

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance/Consulting

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance requirements have created enormous burdens on public companies— greater demands for manpower and training, higher levels of control oversights, heightened scrutiny on financial reporting, and increased accountability of top company executives. The administration necessary for compliance is not only costly, but also complex. It competes for your company’s resources that could otherwise be used to maximize shareholder value. However, the risks of non-compliance are high; firms could suffer reputational damage and its corporate officers who certify the accuracy of the company’s financial information could also be held liable. Amiral Advisors can help alleviate these burdens.

Our professionals have provided more than 5,000 hours of SOX compliance/consulting services for public companies. Our professionals work closely with your company's senior management and Board of Directors/Audit Committee to implement a top-down, risk-based approach that ensures SOX compliance, thereby effectively reducing the amount of ongoing testing by your management and external auditors. Our process includes identifying, documenting, testing, and remediating internal controls over financial reporting, as well as serving as a liaison between your Management team and the company’s external auditors when appropriate.

Our proven methodology has saved clients considerable time and money when compared with traditional approaches. Our assertion-based approach maximizes management's judgment under Auditing Standard No.5 and the recent Security and Exchange Commission guidance.

If your company is not required to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, we offer SOX readiness and compliance assessments. Growing companies looking to go public in the near future will greatly benefit from this preparation work.

SEC Reporting/Compliance/Consulting

Raising funds through the public stock market requires significant knowledge of complex laws and regulations. We at Amiral Advisors strive to provide our clients with the high-quality expertise necessary to satisfy all Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requirements.

We have considerable experience in providing SEC-reporting services to firms of all sizes andare committed to providing the highest standards of technical expertise. Amiral Advisors provides insights into various aspects of SEC reporting, including:

• Audits in connection with public stock offerings.
• Ongoing SEC reporting responsibilities: preparation of 10Q, 10K and 8K.
• SEC reporting in connection with mergers and acquisitions.
• Small business reporting options.

Our clients receive many benefits from our SEC-reporting services:

• Responsiveness to client-reporting needs and deadlines.
• High-quality professional advice based on thorough research and accurate information.
• In-depth knowledge of SEC rules to ensure that clients satisfy all filing requirements.