About Consensus
We are investment bankers to the consumer products and retail industries. We have offices in New York, Boston, and London.
Investment Banking
We advise parties seeking to sell their business or raise growth capital. After conducting due diligence, we manage the entire marketing process and lead negotiations to deliver an optimal result for our clients. Our sector of expertise enables us to move quickly and efficiently, identifying sources of capital and acquisition partners that are likely to have a high interest in investing in or acquiring your business. Our professionals are multi-disciplinary, allowing us to alleviate the burden of a transaction on management. We also advise acquirers and investors on transactions, offering deal sourcing, negotiation, due diligence, valuation and benchmarking services.
Analytical and Valuation
Because of our extensive expertise in the retail and consumer sectors, our analytical and valuation services are unsurpassed. We offer extensive due diligence services, documenting for our clients all aspects of the target company. We provide valuation services, including fairness opinions in public transactions, that incorporate our extensive transactional experience in determining the true value of a consumer-facing business. We provide benchmarking services, enabling our clients to compare themselves or their targets to peer businesses in a number of analytical categories. We prepare financial models for clients that include extensive sensitization of key variables so that all likely scenarios can be fully assessed.