Send the deal transactions@haleglobal.comA message for investment bankers
Your broken deal can still close.
The process may be weak. The outcome does not have to be. If the strategic is wavering, the sponsor universe is thin, or the business has more problems than the book admits, bring us in early. We will move quickly, tell you what we think, and can play the backup-buyer role when the process needs one.
Turnaround operators
27 years in TMT
Fast, certain closes
Top Factors: Successful vs Unsuccessful Leaders (By Results)Our acquisition criteria
What we want.
Yes – we understand these are the opposite of a desirable sell-side engagement.
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Operational
Bad management. Losing money. Shrinking.
Ideally, losing a lot of money. We look for businesses where the operating problem is real, urgent, and fixable.
02
Industry
Technology, media & telecom.
TMT is where we have spent more than two decades buying, restructuring, rebuilding, and growing businesses.
03
Situation
Breaking? Broken? Weak process? Call us.
We can underwrite complexity quickly and serve as a credible backup buyer when the obvious outcome is no longer obvious.
04
Equity check
$10–$20M is typical.
We have invested up to $55M of equity and can go larger when the opportunity warrants it.
About Hale Global
We buy shrinking businesses. Then we grow them.
We are growth buyers of declining TMT businesses. We make the hard operating changes, build the right leadership teams, and have materially grown the businesses we buy.
Find the truth fast.
We work down the chain of command to find the leaders, truth-tellers, and doers – and the operating facts hidden by a broken process.
Make the hard reset.
We move decisively on cost, leadership, financial visibility, product priorities, and the cultural barriers to change.
Build the next growth engine.
We free the best people to perform, recruit missing talent, and concentrate resources where the business can win.
The Hale Global difference
A small senior team. Frank feedback. Fast action. A willingness to do what most boards and buyers believe is impossible.
Transaction proof
Speed when the process needs it most.
We are comfortable where diligence is incomplete, the timeline is compressed, and certainty matters more than another round of process.
13 days
MNI
Diligenced, signed and closed a binding transaction with Deutsche Boerse (Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips).
1 week
Patch
From engagement to signing with AOL (Allen & Company); five weeks to close.
72 hours
LocationLogic
Definitive agreements completed with Autodesk (standing start to sign).
94
Employee NPS
Our 27-year average NPS for all employees, for each of the three years post-closing.
What counterparties say
A certain close. A future for the business.
We can offer both because of the record behind us: decades of buying troubled TMT businesses and growing them.
“We couldn’t have gotten to a closing in this timeframe with anyone else.”
“They’ve been excellent operators and innovated and rebuilt the platform.”
“I admired your ability to, in just a few days, do the analysis and work through it as quickly as you did, and get to the heart of the matter…. This was a record for a deal. You did a great job.”