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Deal simulations by Aldwell Partners

Aldwell Academy

Sell a family business, raise a Series A, or finance an acquisition. Every early decision comes back later, the way it does on a live deal.

Sell-side M&A

The Mandate

You are the banker hired to sell a family-owned HVAC business for its retiring founder.

  • Normalizing EBITDA and defending add-backs
  • Buyer selection and competitive tension
  • Retrades, working capital pegs and deal certainty

7 stages · about 12 minutes · facts change every run

Play The Mandate

Venture financing

The Raise

You are the founder of a software company raising its Series A.

  • Effective pre-money and the option pool
  • Preferences, anti-dilution and board control
  • What each term sheet pays you at exit

7 stages · about 12 minutes · facts change every run

Play The Raise

Debt financing

The Facility

You are the advisor raising $13M of debt for a distributor's acquisition and growth.

  • Borrowing base eligibility
  • Matching ABL, term loans and unitranche to uses
  • Covenants, guarantees and year-one liquidity

7 stages · about 12 minutes · facts change every run

Play The Facility

How every case works

Decide with what you knowReal deal documents, partial information and a client with opinions of their own.
Live with the consequencesDiligence, field exams and the next 18 months test every call you made earlier.
Get a scored debriefA score, a rank and the reasoning behind each decision, set against how a senior practitioner plays it.

Aldwell Partners

The execution behind the deals.

Aldwell Partners builds the financial models, CIMs, investor and lender materials, and process work behind transactions like these, for advisory firms and under their own brand. Your firm keeps the client relationship.

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