The Agriculture and Food sector is led by innovation and new technologies. In such a vital and constantly changing industry you need the right experts to help you when you come to a fork in the road. We offer a proprietary methodology whereby we can support and add value to Agriculture and Food companies (and their stakeholders) at every stage from start-up to exit.
For more details view our fact sheet.
Our prominent domain experts in this focus area include the following
Representing on cumulative basis 100+ years experience
Armand Lavoie
Rod Parker
Steve Dauphin
• Advanced fertilizers
• Water management
• Seeds and genetics
• Biopesticides
• Water management
• Seeds and genetics
• Biopesticides
• By-product reuse
• Nutraceuticals & nutritional products
• Industrial bioproducts
• Food processing
• Nutraceuticals & nutritional products
• Industrial bioproducts
• Food processing
• Aquaculture
• Cosmetics
• Diagnostics
• Animal health
• Cosmetics
• Diagnostics
• Animal health
We have worked with and are in regular contact with the majority of the strategics in the Agriculture and Food industry.
To learn how we can put our domain expertise to work for you contact us.
Agriculture & Food Tombstones
Advanced BioNutrition Corp.
Certain Animal Health & Nutrition Technologies Acquired By
International Strategic (Undisclosed)
Kirchner and Company, Inc. acted as M&A Advisor to Advanced BioNutrition Corp.
Alaska Permanent Fund
Advisor on due diligence in the Indigo Agriculture transaction.
Kirchner Group provided Advisory services.
Nutritional Products Company
Review of operational efficiencies in division of $300M public company
Kirchner Group provided diagnostic services.
Agriculture & Food Case Studies
Water & Waste Water Company
Background
- Water Technology company that has developed an innovative system to detect the presence of micro-organism water
- Investors group include VC, Angels, University Licensing Branch and Private investors
- Significant capital was invested in the company since inception to validate the technology and manufacture a beta unit
- Company was still burning cash and had a small number of units in the market
Mandate
- Find a strategic acquirer that will support the growth of the business and pay a premium for the synergies. The ideal strategic acquirer will use the technology as a platform to build a large water monitoring group and will recognize the value of the patent portfolio
Activity
- Developed material for discussion with Strategic Market
- Revised the business plan and financial forecast
- Benchmarked the financial projections against competitors in the Water Industry
- Prepared a case by case value proposition for each Strategic Acquirer
- Contacted the key Strategic Players in the Water industry
- Negotiated with potential acquirers the best terms for the investors
Results
- Completed a transaction with a Blue chip corporation based in Europe
- Transaction exceeded Investor expectation
- The acquired was use as a platform to launch a water monitoring division within the parent company
