M&A and Transaction Solutions
M&A Consulting. M&A Insurance. Enhanced Returns.
Risk-Focused Due Diligence for Your M&A Transactions
Hylant helps deal teams minimize transaction risks, resolve problematic issues and optimize the value of M&A transactions, divestitures, public-to-private partnerships, commercial loans and structured financial transactions.Viewing your transaction through a risk-focused lens, we identify potential deal-related issues, quantify their financial and operational impact, and provide customized strategies and tools for effectively managing them. Working with your deal team, we protect your investments, facilitate transactions and maximize your financial returns.
What We Do for Clients
Valuation Due Diligence
Through a risk-focused mergers and acquisitions due diligence process, we analyze the financial and qualitative impacts an acquirer or seller should be aware of, including property insurance, employee benefits, retirement plans, key employee compensation or life insurance.
M&A Insurance
We design solutions and place transactional risk insurance policies to transfer your risks to third-party insurers. Depending on your deal, policies could include reps and warranties insurance, tax liability insurance, environmental rep and warranty insurance, contingent liability insurance or others.
Structured Financial Solutions
When debt, equity capital or other security is unavailable, we design bespoke forms of insurance capital to facilitate a transaction.
Comprehensive Risk Analysis
We methodically evaluate the organization's financial, operational and enterprise risks and their potential impacts. This process improves the organization’s ability to make informed decisions when determining how best to deploy resources.
Who We Help
Private Equity Firms
We understand the importance of working effectively with your private equity team and your operating partner to ensure alignment and achieve your goals. Our M&A advisory team assists with all phases of acquisition or divestiture and complex operating transactions.
Privately Held & Public Companies
Whether you are a small middle-market organization or a multi-billion-dollar national enterprise, we can help. From structuring balance sheet protection for tax uncertainty to insuring transaction agreements for strategic acquisitions or divestitures, we expertly navigate complex business transactions, bring certainty to uncertain events, and help your company realize its goals.
Family Offices
As a family-owned organization, Hylant has a unique perspective and assists family offices in ways others can't. Working alongside your executives, business manager and legal team, we advise and offer comprehensive solutions for your M&A activity and other transactions.
Consulting & Advisory Firms
Because we work with many different consulting and advisory firm disciplines, we understand the value of working as a team and delivering what is best for our mutual client. Our expertise and ability to work within your process and timeline improve your position and help you strengthen your client relationship.
Leadership
Kip Irle
Senior Vice President - Transactional Risk
Kip Irle leads Hylant's M&A and Transaction Solutions team. He joined Hylant in 2013 and has over three decades of experience in the industry.
Kip provides strong leadership to his team and clients. He is able to see developing change in the marketplace and how it will impact our clients, and shape how we think about our clients, their needs, and what our products and services need to do for them. His creativity allows him to see the needs of our clients as an opportunity to adjust or build our product and service offerings so our value is driven by the needs of the market.
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Trusted Advisors
Hylant team members are ready to advise you and help you confidently address your needs.
Kip Irle
Global M&A | Transaction Solutions Leader
Chicago
Casey Johnson
Managing Director - Transactional Risk
Grand Rapids
Warren Philipp Jr.
Managing Director - Transactional Risk
Columbus
Michelle Molnar
Managing Director - Due Diligence
Toledo
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