Cortland Advisors
Cortland Advisors, LLC is a partner-owned mergers and acquisitions advisory firm serving middle-market businesses. It publicly describes sell-side, buy-side, and M&A consulting services, with a current stated focus on companies in the $20-100 Million Revenue range.
Cortland Advisors provides sell-side M&A advisory, buy-side M&A advisory, and M&A consulting.
Its public sector coverage includes government contracting, aerospace and defense, energy, construction, media and entertainment, healthcare, technology, engineering, and transportation. The current homepage states a $20-100 Million Revenue focus, while an official 2022 brochure described a $10MM-$75MM revenue focus; the applicable range should be confirmed directly.[1][2][6][7][8][11]
What does Cortland Advisors do?
Cortland Advisors, LLC is a partner-owned mergers and acquisitions advisory firm serving middle-market businesses. The firm publicly presents an advisor-led model covering sell-side M&A advisory, buy-side M&A advisory, and M&A consulting.[1][2]
Cortland publicly offers sell-side M&A advisory, buy-side M&A advisory, and M&A consulting services. Its stated sell-side activities include marketing-material preparation, financial review, selected-buyer-list development, transaction negotiation, and deal-structure guidance. Its stated buy-side activities include pre-deal strategic planning, valuation, leverage analysis, financial-sponsor identification, and transaction negotiation and structuring.[2]
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Published criteria: The current homepage states that Cortland intentionally formed its business to support companies in the $20-100 Million Revenue range. An official 2022 brochure described a $10MM-$75MM revenue focus, so the current mandate range should be confirmed directly.[1][7]
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Cortland Advisors?
Owners evaluating Cortland should confirm the current mandate range, including how the stated $20-100 Million Revenue range is applied and whether other financial criteria are used. They should also identify the professionals who would lead the engagement, discuss relevant buyer coverage and conflicts, and request the engagement economics, tail provisions, exclusivity terms, and termination rights. The contracting entity is identified as Cortland Advisors, LLC; owners should clarify whether any affiliated or partner entity would provide regulated securities or investment-advisory services.[1][2][11]
What is the current minimum and maximum revenue or enterprise-value range for new engagements
Which professionals would lead the mandate, and how many comparable transactions have they completed recently
What are the engagement fees, success-fee mechanics, tail provisions, exclusivity terms, and termination rights
What size transactions and clients does Cortland Advisors focus on?
The firm’s official sectors page lists government contracting, aerospace and defense, energy, commercial construction, media and entertainment, healthcare, technology, engineering, and transportation. Its construction practice also covers commercial and residential construction, trucking, transportation, logistics, manufacturing, structural steel fabrication, heavy equipment, and concrete. Its technology team advises businesses providing engineering-related software and services to the technology industry.[3][4][5]
Cortland’s official transactions page identifies examples including Dykstra, MarketConnections, Recip Tech, TMG, AVDS, Prometheus, Compendeum, Intercom, Belcan, Aurea, DigitalBridge/Teton, Redgate/AOL, and Pulse Secure/MobileSpaces. Cortland separately announced that it advised Dykstra Construction on its sale to JF Petroleum Group; that private transaction closed on February 7, 2022.[8][9]
Cortland’s publicly stated transaction work spans sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory, as well as consulting. The sell-side process described by the firm includes preparation of marketing materials, financial review, selected-buyer-list development, negotiation, and deal-structure guidance. The buy-side offering includes strategic planning, valuation, leverage analysis, financial-sponsor identification, and transaction negotiation and structuring.[2]
What does Cortland Advisors publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The official Transactions page displays identifiable transaction examples but does not publish transaction values or consideration terms for those examples, and it does not provide complete closing-date information for each displayed transaction. The official Contact page does not publish a firm-level broker-dealer or investment-adviser registration number, regulator, or license status. The homepage states a $20-100 Million Revenue range but does not define a current minimum enterprise value, transaction-size range, EBITDA threshold, or other financial screening criteria. The Services page does not publish engagement fees, success-fee percentages, minimum fees, tail periods, exclusivity terms, or termination provisions.[1][2][8][11]
The official Contact page identifies the contracting entity as Cortland Advisors, LLC. That page does not publish a firm-level broker-dealer or investment-adviser registration number, regulator, or license status.[11]
Cortland describes a process involving marketing preparation, financial review, targeted buyer introductions, negotiation, and deal-structure guidance. Its Current Projects page states that prospective buyers may sign an NDA and receive a confidential information memorandum for listed opportunities.[2][10]
Questions to ask before hiring Cortland Advisors
What is the current minimum and maximum revenue or enterprise-value range for new engagements?
Which professionals would lead the mandate, and how many comparable transactions have they completed recently?
What are the engagement fees, success-fee mechanics, tail provisions, exclusivity terms, and termination rights?
Are family offices part of Cortland's potential buyer coverage for the relevant sector, alongside strategic buyers and financial sponsors?
What transaction values, dates, buyer identities, and seller references can be shared under confidentiality?
What legal entity contracts with clients, and does any affiliated or partner entity provide regulated securities or investment-advisory services?
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