- Effective Positioning: Au Bon Pain faced the challenges of a recently-departed CEO, an unproven suburban prototype and Compass Group’s requirement to retain the company-owned airport locations. Brookwood helped present this complicated story in a clear fashion to potential investors.
- Effective Marketing and Negotiating: To fully explore all options, Brookwood managed a marketing process that included senior debt, mezzanine debt and equity capital providers. Management received attractive offers, and Brookwood was instrumental in determining the best structure and negotiating favorable terms for management.
- Excellent Result: The transaction allowed management to obtain a majority equity interest in the new company, plus a compatible financing partner for the future. Brookwood’s efforts achieved a result that exceeded our clients’ expectations.
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"Brookwood's team was invaluable in helping the Au Bon Pain management team execute its Management Buyout. They helped us attract quality financial partners at an attractive valuation, and then continued to add a lot of value in getting the deal closed. We would use them again, hands down."
- Sue Morelli, President
ABP Corporation
"This is the second time we worked with the principals from Brookwood. We sought them out because of the high degree of professionalism, exceptional quality and most of all, their ability to produce results that create real value. They structured a transaction exactly as we envisioned, despite the complexities and irregularities of our deal. I would absolutely recommend the terrific group of folks at Brookwood."
- Tim Oliveri, CFO
ABP Corporation
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