Articles by James Scott
There is a system in place for globalization. In order to expand you need to become part of the system. There is no organized group of puppeteers controlling your economic fate and for any obstacle in your path there is a solution. Economics and international expansionism is a combination of formula and contacts.
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Keywords: Companies decide to go public for many different reasons: expansion, need for capital, exit strategy, acquisition facilitation, globalization etc. But what are the real advantages to going public? First, let’s go over the disadvantages. Your life becomes an open book and as an executive your spending habits and failures will be a matter of public information with your annual and quarterly filings.
As a strategies consultant my firm deals with IPOs on every scale whether we are the lead group on the project or not. Sometimes we run the project and put our own team in place, others we are part of a team for another consulting firm. One thing that I’ve learned is when is our project we need to take the ‘lead role’ because at the end of the day everyone just sits staring unless they are given exact descriptions of what needs to be accomplished and in what time frame.
It’s outside the nature of the strong willed, motivated IPO consultant, global strategist or structuring consultant to give up and through in the towel but sometimes failure is the only option. When you deal with a company, which will represent most of your clientele, that will follow instructions to get from point A to point B you can help them succeed promptly with little resistance and you can optimize their position with relevant ease if you are truly qualified for the contract that you’ve taken on.
So many companies make gargantuan mistakes that are irreversible when it comes to fund-raising. Whether you’re taking a company public, finding an attorney to file your S1 or using a consultant to write a Private Placement Memorandum to raise capital; you need to know that you are a tantalizing snack for industry wolves.
Companies seeking the above services with ill-informed executive decision makers often fall prey to predatory consultants who have no intention and couldn’t fulfill the services they are being hired for even if they wanted to. Upstarts and fast talkers who call themselves ‘business consultants’ are usually nothing more than resellers of a service who is a boilerplate, template driven organization without the contacts or know-how to facilitate an IPO, S1 or PPM.
