Food & Beverage
The US Food and Beverage sector is a very competitive market facing an increasingly complex regulatory environment. Milestone’s experts have been working closely with clients active in the Food and Beverage industries for over 10 years and have been at the forefront of some of the sector’s most innovative and complex transactions. Milestone understands the components required for strategic growth in the sector, from Research and Development through marketing and distribution, and is well positioned to assist thought leadership in the industry.
Milestone is often able to provide a unique perspective for Food & Beverage boards whether private or public; and whether they are a fabrication/packaged consumables concern, a distributor, a retail or online presence.
In addition to advising some of the world’s largest food & beverage companies, Milestone’s advisors have served private equity investors, lenders and contractors in a wide range of transactional engagements relating to:
– Bond financing for the construction of a greenfield production facility;
– Acquisition financing for the purchaser of a food supply company;
– Procurement and Construction of a greenfield production facility;
– Investments in food supply companies;
– Asset-backed lending to food supply companies;
– Supplier negotiations;
– Mezzanine financing to a food production company;
– Restructuring of a food production company;
– Numerous distribution arrangements for a global spirits company.
Milestone also maintains a global network of corporate and finance relationships in the food and beverage sector.