The Vrakas team understands the intricacies of private equity ownership, including matters that may arise throughout the lifecycle. In addition to understanding the nuances of private equity ownership, we provide a sophisticated service team with industry experience in the markets where your portfolio company operates.
Vrakas brings a wealth of experience across a variety of industries, including construction, manufacturing & distribution, professional services, real estate, and technology. We believe our service model, which includes active shareholder/manager involvement throughout all phases of assurance and tax engagements, enables us to effectively partner with you to identify financial reporting and tax risks associated with your portfolio company.
Our extensive knowledge and experience working with emerging to established companies, and our core focus on for-profit, middle-market companies, enable us to provide constructive feedback on potential risks facing your portfolio company and appropriate controls to mitigate them.
Our assurance group has placed greater emphasis on communicating internal control-related issues in connection with audit engagements, as these issues should be of the utmost importance to those charged with governance of private equity-owned companies. Our tax group works with you throughout the ownership life cycle to minimize tax implications, including selecting the appropriate entity structure and sale structure.
Simply put, our goal is to help you maximize the potential of your investment and prepare it for a smooth, successful exit.
Our advisory services include:
- Due diligence: financial, operations, tax, and much more
- Financial modeling, including forecasts and projections
- Analyzing deal structure: formation, management incentives, and investor incentives
- Business valuation services
- Quality of earnings assessments
- Tax compliance & consulting: entity structure, cost segregation studies, research & development, and IC DISC
- Allocation of purchase price
- Assurance
