OUR SERVICESConcrete solutions to turn your challenges into results
Tailored expertise
Pragmatic approach
Lasting impact
OUR SERVICESConcrete solutions to turn your challenges into results
Tailored expertise
Pragmatic approach
Lasting impact
EXPLORE OUR SERVICES BY AREA OF EXPERTISE
Transactional preparation, due diligence, valuation, or post-acquisition value creation: we ensure the success of every phase of your transactions and maximize your return on investment. Our solutions are designed for investment funds, companies pursuing external growth, and executives preparing for a sale.
TRANSACTIONS
TRANSACTION PREPARATION
SALE PREPARATION
MAXIMIZE YOUR COMPANY’S VALUE FOR A SUCCESSFUL SALE
Selling a company often represents the culmination of years of effort and investment. Inadequate preparation can significantly reduce final value and jeopardize the success of this crucial step.
UPMYCO’s sale preparation transforms your business into an attractive and secure opportunity for potential buyers. Our methodical approach optimizes all aspects that influence valuation: financial performance, operational efficiency, strategic positioning, and quality of presented data.
We proactively identify and correct weaknesses that could be flagged during buyer due diligence, thereby strengthening your negotiating position. Our team also develops professional and comprehensive documentation that highlights your strategic and operational strengths.
With our support, you can conduct your sale process with confidence and efficiency. Our expertise allows you to significantly increase the final transaction value, substantially reduce negotiation failure risk, and accelerate the overall sales timeline.
Trust UPMYCO to turn your sale into a financial and strategic success.
Vendor due diligence
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR SALE PROCESS
In a sales process, potential buyers carefully scrutinize your company to identify any weakness that could justify downward price revision. Without adequate preparation, you risk losing control of the narrative and seeing your company’s value questioned.
UPMYCO’s vendor due diligence places you in a position of strength by anticipating buyers’ questions and concerns. Our team conducts in-depth analysis of your financial and operational performance, identifies valuation drivers, and prepares solid responses to potential investor inquiries.
By highlighting your strengths and proactively addressing potential areas of concern, we help you present a clear, consistent, and attractive picture to buyers. This preventive approach significantly limits the risk of value challenge during negotiations.
With our vendor due diligence, you strengthen your credibility with investors, accelerate the sales process, and optimize your transaction terms. This preparation transforms your sale process into a controlled strategic opportunity, enabling you to maximize your company’s final value.
Choose UPMYCO to control your narrative and lead your sale from a position of strength.
Succeed in Your Company Acquisition
Acquiring a company represents a major challenge: assessing true profitability, negotiating optimal terms, structuring financing, and ensuring smooth transition. Between legal, financial, and operational stakes, you must make quick decisions while minimizing risks. Without rigorous preparation, you risk overpaying, discovering hidden liabilities, or jeopardizing operational continuity from the first months.
Our acquisition support gives you every chance of success: in-depth financial analysis of the target, risk area identification, realistic valuation, financial structure design, and transition plan preparation. Our methodology combines analytical rigor with operational pragmatism to enable you to negotiate from a position of strength and build a solid business plan. We stay by your side during the first 100 days to secure takeover and integration.
With our support, you make your decision with full knowledge of opportunities and risks, with a clear view of the target’s real value. You negotiate the best acquisition terms through documented and quantified arguments. You secure your financing with a structured and credible file for banks and investors. You launch your new business with a precise action plan and tracking indicators to quickly transform your acquisition into operational and financial success.
Due diligences & evaluations
FLASH AUDIT
QUICKLY REVEAL AN ACQUISITION TARGET’S POTENTIAL
In the race for the best investment opportunities, time is your most precious resource. When a target emerges, you must quickly determine whether it merits thorough investigation, without deploying significant resources.
UPMYCO’s flash audit provides a fast-track strategic view that immediately identifies the key issues of an acquisition opportunity. In just a few days, our experts analyze the target’s essential financial, operational, and strategic aspects. Our proven methodology highlights critical red flags and differentiating elements that enhance your potential investment.
With our flash audit, you quickly have factual elements and relevant analysis to confidently decide whether to proceed with full due diligence. This time and efficiency gain allows you to focus your resources on the most promising opportunities and quickly eliminate those that don’t meet your investment criteria.
Choose UPMYCO’s flash audit to accelerate your decision-making and secure your acquisition pipeline.
Buyer due diligence
SECURE YOUR INVESTMENTS WITH A 360° VIEW OF YOUR TARGET
A successful acquisition relies on thorough understanding of all aspects of your target. Incomplete assessment can lead to costly post-acquisition surprises and jeopardize your return on investment.
UPMYCO’s due diligence offers multidimensional analysis that goes well beyond the numbers. Our experts meticulously examine competitive strengths, market dynamics, and the target’s strategic position. Our approach simultaneously covers strategy, commercial aspects (customer segments, market share, competitive dynamics), and critical operational dimensions.
We complement this analysis with sophisticated financial modeling that assesses potential profitability and simulates different value creation scenarios. This unique combination of sector expertise and strategic vision provides all the elements you need to make informed investment decisions.
With our due diligence, you negotiate from a position of strength, anticipate post-acquisition challenges, and plan concrete actions to maximize return on your investment from day one.
Choose UPMYCO’s expertise to transform your acquisition process into a lasting value creation driver.
Independent Business Review (IBR)
AN OBJECTIVE DIAGNOSTIC FOR INFORMED STRATEGIC DECISIONS
In an uncertain economic environment, having an independent and factual assessment of a company’s financial and operational health becomes crucial. Whether you’re an investor, lender, or executive, you need a clear and objective view to protect your interests.
UPMYCO’s Independent Business Review provides comprehensive and impartial diagnostics that inform your decision-making. Our team of experts conducts in-depth analysis of the company’s financial, operational, and strategic aspects, while identifying key opportunities and risks often invisible to conventional analyses.
Our approach combines rigorous assessment of current performance, thorough cash flow analysis, and realistic projection of future prospects. Our conclusions rest on factual data and analyses independent of any internal influence.
With our IBR, you have a credible reference document that enables you to make informed decisions, reassure your stakeholders, and effectively prioritize your actions. This external perspective is a valuable asset in restructuring, refinancing, or strategic transformation contexts.
Trust UPMYCO’s expertise to gain clear and objective insight in complex situations.
BUSINESS VALUATION
DETERMINE FAIR VALUE AND MAXIMIZE TRANSACTION TERMS
An approximate valuation can cost you millions, whether you’re a buyer or seller. In a transaction context, every percentage point counts and valuation accuracy becomes a major issue for optimizing financial results.
UPMYCO’s transactional valuation offers a sophisticated approach that precisely determines a company’s true value. Our experts meticulously analyze historical financial performance, sector dynamics, and strategic projections to establish a robust and defensible valuation.
We use advanced financial modeling tools and combine multiple valuation methods (DCF, sector multiples, comparable transactions) to obtain a comprehensive and nuanced view. This approach identifies value creation drivers and potential areas of concern that influence final valuation.
With our transactional valuation, you negotiate from a position of strength, with solid arguments and deep understanding of value levers. Whether you’re preparing an acquisition, sale, or fundraising, our expertise enables you to optimize financial terms and protect your interests throughout the process.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your valuation into a strategic advantage during high-stakes transactions.
corporate finance
PLAN AND OPTIMIZE YOUR PROFITABILITY
BUSINESS AUDIT AND DIAGNOSTIC
IDENTIFY YOUR PRIORITY PERFORMANCE LEVERS
Without an objective and comprehensive view of your organization, you risk investing resources in low-impact initiatives or overlooking structural problems that hinder your development. This lack of visibility can lead to misguided strategic decisions and missed improvement opportunities.
UPMYCO’s audit and diagnostic provides an external, methodical, and impartial perspective on your business. Our multidimensional approach analyzes in depth your processes, financial performance, organizational structures, and operational models to paint a complete picture of your current situation.
This meticulous work highlights strengths to capitalize on, weaknesses to correct, and above all, identifies priority improvement levers that will generate the most significant impact. Our concrete and directly actionable recommendations provide a clear roadmap to transform findings into tangible results.
With our diagnostic, you make informed decisions based on facts rather than intuition. This objective view enables you to effectively prioritize improvement initiatives, optimally allocate resources, and rally teams around relevant and realistic objectives.
Trust UPMYCO to transform your situation assessment into a springboard to excellence.
BUSINESS PLAN DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL MODELING
TRANSFORM YOUR AMBITIONS INTO CREDIBLE FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS
The success of an entrepreneurial project or fundraising depends on your ability to present a clear, coherent, and compelling financial vision. An approximate business plan or weak financial projections compromise your credibility and funding chances.
UPMYCO’s business plan development transforms your ambitions into strategic documents that inspire confidence. Our approach combines analytical rigor with strategic vision to build a solid case, supported by detailed and realistic financial projections.
Our experts work closely with you to understand your objectives, constraints, and market specifics. We develop a comprehensive and professional package, including a precise business plan and robust financial forecasts (P&L, cash flow, balance sheets) that withstand investors’ critical examination.
With our sophisticated financial modeling, we simulate different scenarios to assess opportunities and anticipate risks. These tools become true management supports that guide you in achieving your objectives and adjusting your strategy.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your projects into convincing financial reality.
BUDGETS AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
EFFECTIVELY STEER YOUR COMPANY TOWARD EXCELLENCE
In a volatile economic environment, navigating without precise measuring instruments is like driving blindfolded. The absence of structured budgets and effective management tools compromises your ability to make informed decisions and achieve strategic objectives.
UPMYCO’s management system transforms your data into decision intelligence. Our integrated approach begins with developing logical and detailed budgets (revenue, Opex, Capex, cash flow) that translate your strategy into concrete and realistic financial targets.
We then design customized dashboards that provide clear, real-time visibility into your key performance metrics. These tools highlight significant variances and enable you to quickly identify priority improvement areas.
With our support, you benefit from informed governance, where every decision rests on reliable data and nuanced understanding of your challenges. This approach strengthens your ability to anticipate difficulties, adjust actions, and optimally allocate resources, creating a virtuous cycle of performance.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your management into a sustainable competitive advantage.
REPORTING AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
TRANSFORM YOUR DATA INTO STRATEGIC DECISION LEVERS
Data abundance doesn’t automatically translate into useful decision-making information. Without an effective reporting system, you struggle to identify critical trends, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and rally teams around essential priorities.
UPMYCO’s performance management system converts your data into actionable intelligence. Our tailored approach begins by identifying truly relevant indicators for your business and strategic objectives.
We design intuitive dashboards that provide clear and immediate visualization of your company’s status. These tools present information hierarchically, enabling you to identify at a glance successes to capitalize on and areas requiring particular attention.
With our support, you gain decision-making agility and operational efficiency. Our optimized reporting processes save precious time by automating data collection, allowing you to dedicate more energy to analysis and action. This increased transparency also facilitates team alignment on priority objectives and strengthens confidence among your financial partners.
COST ANALYTICS: CONTROL YOUR COSTS AND SECURE YOUR MARGINS
MAXIMIZE YOUR PROFITABILITY WITHOUT COMPROMISING YOUR DEVELOPMENT
In an uncertain and competitive economic context, cost control and margin protection become strategic imperatives. Yet untargeted budget cuts risk weakening your innovation capacity and long-term growth.
UPMYCO’s cost optimization approach balances immediate performance with future ambitions. Our rigorous methodology analyzes your cost structure in depth to identify inefficiencies and quantify optimization opportunities at all organizational levels.
We deploy sophisticated tools that make your costs transparent and actionable, enabling you to make informed pricing decisions and identify priority profitability levers. Our approach goes beyond simple budget cuts to develop a true optimal resource allocation strategy.
With our support, you significantly improve margins while preserving your ability to invest in your future. This structured approach enables you to identify the most profitable products, services, or customers, adjust your pricing policy, and develop an internal culture of rigorous management that sustainably strengthens your competitive advantage.
Trust UPMYCO to transform your cost management into a lasting strategic advantage.
INVESTMENT PROJECT SUPPORT
SECURE YOUR INVESTMENT DECISIONS WITH SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE
Investment decisions create long-term commitments for your company and mobilize considerable resources. Without thorough analysis, you risk allocating resources to low-return projects, underestimating risks, or missing transformative opportunities for your business.
UPMYCO’s support secures your investment projects at every stage of the process. Our methodical approach begins with precise needs qualification and evaluation of different strategic options, ensuring perfect alignment of the project with your development objectives.
Our experts conduct sophisticated financial analyses, combining scenario modeling and detailed profitability studies to objectively assess each opportunity. This analytical rigor enables you to identify highest-potential projects, precisely measure associated risks, and optimize your financing plans.
With our support, you make informed decisions based on reliable data and clear strategic vision. Our expertise helps you optimize resource allocation, intelligently sequence your initiatives, and maximize return on investment for your strategic projects.
Trust UPMYCO to transform your investment decisions into sustainable competitive advantages.
Plan and optimize your profitability
FINANCING STRUCTURING AND FUNDRAISING
SECURE THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES NEEDED FOR YOUR DEVELOPMENT
Access to financing tailored to your needs often represents a major challenge, whether accelerating growth, restructuring operations, or seizing strategic opportunities. An unstructured approach limits your options and may expose you to unfavorable terms.
UPMYCO’s financing solution transforms this constraint into a strategic opportunity. Our approach begins with in-depth analysis of your real needs, current financial structure, and projects, to determine the most suitable financing solutions at the best cost.
We develop a tailored financing strategy and prepare a compelling package that highlights your company’s strengths and secures financial partners’ confidence.
As a trusted partner, we support you throughout negotiations, ensuring optimized terms and preserving your future flexibility. This rigorous approach not only enables you to access necessary resources, but also strengthens your credibility within the financial ecosystem and lays the foundation for lasting trust-based relationships with your partners.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your fundraising into a strategic development lever.
CASH MANAGEMENT AND TREASURY OPTIMIZATION
SECURE YOUR CASH FLOW AND GAIN FINANCIAL AUTONOMY
Cash pressure can jeopardize even the most profitable companies. Cash tensions, difficulties anticipating financing needs, or inability to optimize working capital requirements limit your strategic agility and weaken your position against economic uncertainties.
UPMYCO’s treasury optimization program transforms your cash management into a competitive advantage. Our methodical approach begins with in-depth analysis of your financial flows to identify inefficiencies and quantify improvement opportunities.
We implement forecasting and tracking tools that give you clear visibility into your short- and medium-term cash position, enabling you to anticipate needs and avoid surprises. In parallel, we optimize your operating cycle (customer payment terms, inventory turnover, supplier terms) to free up cash tied up in working capital requirements.
With our support, you secure operations and gain financial autonomy. This mastery of your cash flow enables you to anticipate needs, seize strategic opportunities, and strengthen your position in negotiations with commercial and financial partners.
Trust UPMYCO to transform your treasury into a strategic and operational lever.
COST REDUCTION PLANS
REDUCE COSTS IN A TARGETED WAY WITHOUT COMPROMISING YOUR FUTURE
Faced with growing economic pressures, cost reduction becomes imperative. However, untargeted budget cuts risk weakening operational capabilities, degrading your offering, and demotivating teams, thereby compromising your ability to bounce back.
UPMYCO’s cost reduction plan balances immediate optimization with long-term vision. Our structured approach begins with in-depth analysis of your expenses and investments to identify savings sources that preserve strategic strengths and growth potential.
We develop a prioritized action program that first targets inefficiencies, redundancies, and non-essential expenses. Each initiative is evaluated based on financial impact, feasibility, and consequences for operational capacity, ensuring optimal balance between immediate results and future preservation.
With our cost reduction plan, you achieve significant and sustainable cost reductions while keeping strategic capabilities intact. This structured approach also enables you to rethink key processes, redirect investments toward higher value-added activities, and develop a culture of rigorous resource management.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your budget constraints into a strengthening opportunity.
Operations
STRATEGIC ADVISORY AND CEO SUPPORT
BENEFIT FROM A STRATEGIC PARTNER FOR YOUR KEY DECISIONS
Executive isolation when facing strategic decisions represents a major challenge and risk for the company. Without a high-level counterpart to challenge your thinking, you may lack perspective, miss relevant options, or waste time navigating the complexity of multidimensional issues.
UPMYCO’s co-piloting service provides a trusted partner who supports you in critical thinking and decision-making. Our tailored approach combines strategic vision, operational expertise, and entrepreneurial experience to bring structuring and stimulating external perspective.
We work alongside you to clarify issues, analyze options, anticipate consequences, and structure implementation of your decisions. This privileged relationship enables you to test your ideas, enrich your thinking, and strengthen confidence in your strategic choices.
With our support, you break decision-making isolation and gain efficiency in leading your company. Our presence alongside you enables better-informed decisions, anticipation of potential obstacles, and agile strategy adjustments, while strengthening your leadership with teams and stakeholders.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your decision-making challenges into strategic opportunities.
CFO ADVISORY, STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL CONSULTING
BENEFIT FROM HIGH-LEVEL FINANCIAL EXPERTISE WITHOUT FIXED COSTS
The finance function plays a crucial role in your company’s performance and development. Yet accessing high-level financial expertise often represents considerable investment, particularly for growing SMEs and mid-market companies.
UPMYCO’s CFO Advisory service offers a flexible and effective solution, combining the expertise of an experienced financial director with the flexibility of tailored support. Our cross-functional approach covers all financial challenges: strategic management, operational optimization, financial structuring, and partner communication.
Our experts work alongside you to strengthen processes, optimize management tools, and secure strategic decisions. Whether structuring your finance function, preparing fundraising, optimizing your business model, or managing a transformation project, our team brings strategic vision and proven solutions.
With our support, you benefit from world-class financial expertise without bearing the fixed costs of permanent recruitment. This approach improves decision-making quality, strengthens credibility with financial partners, and directly contributes to your overall performance.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your finance function into a value creation catalyst.
BUSINESS STRATEGY & GOVERNANCE
Strategy
STRATEGIC PLAN
GIVE YOUR COMPANY CLEAR AND MOBILIZING DIRECTION
In a constantly evolving economic environment, the absence of clearly defined strategic vision exposes your organization to scattered efforts and gradual loss of competitiveness. Without precise direction, daily decisions lack coherence and team mobilization becomes a permanent challenge.
UPMYCO’s strategic plan transforms your ambitions into a concrete and operational roadmap. Our structured approach begins with clarifying your long-term vision, then establishes precise objectives tailored to your resources and priorities. We design a comprehensive strategic roadmap and rigorous management system that guarantee alignment of all teams on your priority challenges.
Our proven methodology considers all dimensions of your business—commercial, operational, financial, and human—to create a coherent and balanced plan. We also integrate tracking mechanisms that enable you to regularly assess progress and adjust trajectory in response to market changes.
With our support, you transform vision into tangible and lasting results. This plan becomes a powerful management tool that strengthens team buy-in, facilitates decision-making at all levels, and ensures coherent progression toward your strategic objectives.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your ambitions into strategic reality.
VALUE CREATION PLAN
SYSTEMATICALLY MAXIMIZE YOUR IMPACT AND PERFORMANCE
In the current context, pressure on results has never been stronger. Yet without a structured approach to value creation, initiatives remain scattered and their impact stays limited, generating shareholder frustration and lost strategic opportunities.
UPMYCO’s value creation plan transforms your potential into measurable performance. Our rigorous approach begins with in-depth analysis of your current positioning to identify highest-impact performance levers. We precisely quantify improvement opportunities and translate them into concrete initiatives, prioritized by their contribution to your EBITDA and cash flow.
We define for each initiative precise objectives, clear responsibilities, and relevant tracking indicators, ensuring effective and measurable execution. Our approach also integrates the organizational dimension, ensuring your teams have the skills and resources needed to achieve these ambitions.
With our value creation plan, you maximize financial performance and transform vision into concrete results. This structured approach enables you to fully capture identified opportunities, mitigate risks, and generate sustainable growth in your company’s value.
Trust UPMYCO to transform your financial ambitions into measurable reality.
Business model
REINVENT YOUR BUSINESS MODEL TO ENSURE SUSTAINABILITY
Faced with technological, regulatory, and competitive disruptions, your current business model can quickly become obsolete. Inability to adapt to these changes directly threatens your competitiveness and sustainability, while lack of critical review can cause you to miss transformative opportunities.
UPMYCO’s Business Model approach enables you to reinvent your business to meet tomorrow’s challenges. Our proven methodology begins with in-depth analysis of your current model, ecosystem, and market trends to identify vulnerability areas and innovation opportunities.
In collaboration with your teams, we design a business model tailored to your ambitions and new market realities. Our approach integrates all essential components: value proposition, customer segments, distribution channels, revenue model, and cost structure. We also define a detailed roadmap to ensure controlled transition to this new model.
With our support, you transform market disruptions into strategic opportunities. This approach enables you to strengthen competitive advantage, open new revenue streams, and lay the foundation for sustainable growth, while preserving coherence of your company vision.
Choose UPMYCO to transform today’s challenges into tomorrow’s competitive advantages.
Organization & leadership
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FACILITATION
TRANSFORM YOUR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE INTO A COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE ENGINE
An executive committee that operates in silos, lacks alignment, or wastes time in ineffective meetings represents a major obstacle to strategy execution. This situation limits decision-making agility and creates a growing gap between strategic ambitions and operational implementation.
UPMYCO’s executive committee facilitation program transforms your leadership team into a true driving force. Our structured approach begins by clarifying the committee’s collective role and each member’s individual responsibilities, creating an effective and coherent collaboration framework.
We implement proven methods and tools to optimize your management meetings and decision-making process. Our support also includes developing high-performance management rituals, ensuring rigorous action plan tracking and early identification of gaps or opportunities.
With our expertise in facilitating strategic sessions, managing complex debates, and strengthening cohesion among executives, you benefit from a perfectly aligned and fully effective executive committee. This transformation accelerates strategy deployment, significantly improves decision quality, and creates positive collective dynamics that spread throughout the organization.
Trust UPMYCO to transform your leadership team into a performance catalyst.
ORGANIZATIONAL AUDIT AND GOVERNANCE
OPTIMIZE YOUR STRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE
An ill-suited organization and ineffective governance can significantly hinder your development, despite a relevant strategy. Poorly defined roles, confused decision-making processes, and insufficient oversight mechanisms create friction that slows execution and dilutes accountability.
UPMYCO’s organizational audit and governance offers objective analysis of your structures that reveals priority optimization levers. Our methodical approach examines in depth your decision-making processes, cross-functional interactions, and governance roles to precisely identify sources of inefficiency.
We design an organizational architecture tailored to your strategic challenges, which clarifies responsibilities, streamlines decision-making processes, and strengthens team alignment. Our expertise also enables you to optimize your governance bodies to ensure optimal balance between control and operational agility.
With our support, you develop an agile and high-performing organization, where every employee clearly understands their role in collective success. This structural transformation enables you to accelerate strategy execution, improve cross-functional communication, and build a resilient organization ready to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Choose UPMYCO to transform your organization into a sustainable performance lever.
Outsourced CFO
Outsourced CFO
OUTSOURCED CFO
A CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AT YOUR SERVICE, WITHOUT THE CONSTRAINTS OF A FULL-TIME HIRE
Many SMEs and mid-market companies do not need — or cannot afford — a full-time CFO. Yet they face the same financial challenges as large corporations: monitoring performance, securing cash flow, producing reliable reports and preparing strategic decisions.
UPMYCO’s Outsourced CFO gives you access to senior financial expertise, on a part-time basis and at a controlled cost. We become your dedicated financial partner, fully integrated into your organisation, with a comprehensive view of your business.
What we handle
We oversee your financial management: budget building and monitoring, cash flow forecasting, performance dashboards, monthly closings and reporting for your shareholders or financial partners. We also structure your finance function to make it more reliable and responsive.
Beyond day-to-day oversight, we support your strategic priorities: financial modelling, fundraising, banking relationships, audit preparation and transaction support.
The impact of our involvement
Our clients gain clarity and peace of mind: strategic decisions are grounded in reliable data, early warnings come at the right time, and the finance function shifts from a source of friction to a driver of performance. On average, they report a 60% reduction in time spent on time-consuming administrative and financial tasks, and a significant improvement in their short- and medium-term visibility.
This financial control translates directly into a stronger ability to fund growth, anticipate risks and seize opportunities at the right moment.
Our areas of expertise
Explore our comprehensive service offering and tailored solutions for your challenges.
Transaction preparation and value creation
corporate finance
STRATEGY & ORGANIZATION
OUTSOURCED CFO
We secure and optimize your balance sheet operations, from initial valuation to post-acquisition value creation
We strengthen your financial performance through proactive resource management and optimized management tools.
We clarify your strategic vision and strengthen your organization for flawless execution of your ambitions.
Free up leadership time by focusing on your strategic vision.
“Ready to tackle your challenges?”
Questions & answers
How far ahead should I prepare my company to get the best exit price?
Start 1 to 3 years before you sell, with deeper value-building beginning even earlier. The lead time is what lets you fix weaknesses and grow profitability, which is where most of the price upside comes from.
Selling well is rarely a last-minute move. Early preparation gives you time to defuse the issues buyers use to push the price down: owner dependency, customer concentration, fragile contracts, unresolved litigation. It also lets you work the real value levers, EBITDA growth, governance and a credible equity story, calmly rather than under pressure, and to sell when revenue and EBITDA are rising. UPMYCO supports this ramp-up from the first thinking through to closing, so you negotiate from strength, with valuation multiplied by 1.5 to 5 on its sale-preparation engagements.
Why do deal prices get cut during buyer due diligence, and how do I prevent it?
Prices get cut when the buyer's due diligence uncovers surprises you did not anticipate: weak numbers, hidden risks, a fragile narrative. A vendor due diligence prevents it by surfacing and addressing these issues before you go to market.
Once a price is on the table, every problem the buyer finds becomes leverage to renegotiate down. A vendor due diligence (VDD) flips that dynamic: you analyze your own business first, fix or document the sensitive points, and arrive with a clear, credible file. UPMYCO builds your VDD so you control the narrative, shorten the process and limit downward negotiation, which is decisive in a competitive sale or a sale to a fund. The result is a defended price and far fewer late surprises.
Why do my bank or investors ask for an independent business review?
They ask for an IBR because they want a neutral, fact-based read of your situation, independent of management's narrative, before they commit, refinance or restructure.
When money is at stake, lenders and investors trust an outside diagnostic more than internal projections. An Independent Business Review gives them an objective view of your performance, cash flows and outlook, which de-risks their decision and often unlocks the conversation. UPMYCO produces this IBR with rigor and impartiality, which is especially useful when covenants are tight or a refinancing is at stake. For you, a credible IBR is not a hurdle but a lever: it builds the trust needed to secure support on solid terms.
How do I know what my company is really worth before I negotiate?
Get a multi-criteria valuation, combining DCF, sector multiples and comparable transactions, based on your real performance and growth potential, so you walk into negotiations with documented arguments rather than a hopeful number.
A single method gives a fragile figure, and serious buyers will challenge it. UPMYCO cross-checks discounted cash flow, sector multiples and comparable transactions, then analyzes your historical performance, sector dynamics and projections to land on a defensible range. The work also surfaces what drives your value up and what pulls it down, so you can fix weaknesses before going to market. Knowing your realistic worth early lets you set expectations, time the sale and negotiate from facts, not emotion.
Why does my leadership team keep revisiting the same issues without deciding?
Usually because meetings are run as status updates rather than decision forums: no clear owner, no real arbitration, no follow-up, so the same topics keep coming back.
When roles are blurry and debates never close, issues circle endlessly and the executive ends up arbitrating everything. UPMYCO turns leadership meetings into genuine decision-making spaces: a focused agenda, status handled in writing, real debate on what matters, and decisions that are documented, assigned and tracked. The firm also defuses the interpersonal blockers that stall arbitration and builds cohesion around the company's project. The result is a committee that decides once, executes, and stops relitigating the same questions, becoming an engine of performance rather than a bottleneck.