The energy business is volatile, with rapidly changing global markets. Galway provides guidance
and advice to companies in the design, development, and implementation of successful business
strategies that respond effectively to these markets, including all aspects of commercial
activities. Since the energy business is extremely capital intensive, one of the most critical
factors faced by most companies is obtaining the necessary capital to finance its plans during
good and bad times. This is where Galway's experience and established relations prove to be immensely
valuable, providing an independent perspective to addressing business challenges. We can either provide
a full range of services or meet a specific targeted requirement.
- We provide customized, creative plans and solutions that are designed to address specific business needs.
- We assist in developing strategic plans with viable commercial structures that not only meet client requirements, but position projects to attract investor attention.
- We prepare the necessary financial pro forma statements, as well as organize plans for presentation to prospective clients and investors.
- We effectively market our clients and their strategic plans to the appropriate targets and contacts through an established network of likely customers and investors.
- We assist in negotiations and advise clients on potential approaches for communicating effectively with potential clients and investors.
- We assist clients in developing appropriate transaction documentation.
Galway's services span a broad range, from conducting strategic studies to providing assistance
with contract negotiations to analyzing the financial impact of various decisions to providing
assistance in structuring and obtaining equity and debt. Galway's capabilities are focused on
the following key market areas:
Galway's principals and associated staff are recognized experts in all aspects of worldwide LNG markets, including liquefaction, shipping, and regasification. Practical advice is available for all elements of the value chain from strategy development, including financial feasibility assessment, to commercial negotiation assistance for any component of the LNG contractual chain. Galway offers contacts and relationships with most of the world's significant LNG players, including producers, shippers, terminal owners, and critical market makers. In addition, Galway provides LNG commercial and operations advice to owners' and lenders' project finance teams.
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Galway provides independent commercial, valuation, and transaction advice for all types of natural gas, LPG, oil, and oil product assets, including pipelines, storage, terminal facilities, processing, as well as related merchant and trading companies in North America and Northern Europe. Galway provides support for all levels of the value chain, both within the United States and internationally. Specific advisory services include strategic and financial planning; project and joint venture structuring and analysis; regulatory and operations assessments; expert witness testimony; and commercial support during contract negotiations.
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Galway offers key economic and fuel sourcing studies for power generation, including conventional and developing technologies. Due to our depth of understanding of fuel sourcing, Galway is particularly adept at helping clients to understand capital expenditure and fuel trade-offs.
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Galway understands the role of the rapidly-growing renewable fuel markets, including ethanol and biodiesel, and offers its expertise in developing market strategies as well as site logistics and implementation. We also assist clients with raising capital and provide mergers and acquisition advice in the rapidly developing biofuels market.
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Galway has been very active in the areas of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, with responsibility for developing prospects, implementing strategies, concluding transactions, and providing valuations and fairness opinions. It is Galway's objective to assist companies in maximizing shareholder value by providing the highest level of research and documentation of values, coupled with identifying and contacting the qualified prospective buyers and sellers, expediting the process, and acting as the intermediary for negotiations. Galway also assists with the documentation and other steps necessary to close transactions successfully.
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Galway provides advisory services on the market values of closely-held or thinly-traded corporate securities and interests in oil and gas reserves. These services can take the form of opinion letters, comprehensive reports, and/or expert witness court testimony for public company mergers, estate tax and ESOP valuations, mergers and acquisitions, contract disputes, restructuring, bankruptcy/workouts, and ad valorem property taxes. Analytical methods emphasize long-term strategic valuation rather than short-term trading programs.
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