Our Work
We embed as operators, fix what's holding the business back, and leave it stronger than we found it. Here's what that's looked like across 40+ businesses across 80+ projects.
EXIT:
Strong fundamentals. We built the ‘story’ and value creation levers to support the exit valuation, then supported execution during the exit process.
A privately owned Australian business was heading to market with strong fundamentals but no structured view of its future growth. We embedded a small team, built the commercial narrative and the drivers behind the Information Memorandum, then shifted revenue toward direct, higher-margin sales. The business outperformed its forecast through diligence and completed a successful sale at a strengthened enterprise value.
The Challenge:
Strengthen enterprise value ahead of a sale process for an Australian grown business.
The Project:
Privately owned Australian business preparing for a sale process, requiring a clear and credible growth narrative to underpin valuation and investor confidence.
The business had strong fundamentals but lacked a structured view of future growth, including quantified opportunities across existing locations, new site expansion and revenue mix optimisation.
The mandate was to define the growth story, translate it into a defensible forecast model for the Information Memorandum, and support the founders through the transaction process.
Duration – 3 months
Our Response:
Delivered the project team to Hobart, remotely in Sydney/Melbourne.
Developed the commercial growth narrative for the business, identifying and quantifying priority growth pathways across existing site uplift, new location expansion and additional revenue levers to support a credible equity story.
Built the underlying growth model and outputs that fed directly into the forecast used in the Information Memorandum, providing a clear, evidence-based view of future performance for investors.
Designed and implemented a marketing channel strategy to shift revenue from third-party distribution to direct sales, improving margin quality and demonstrating a more valuable and controllable revenue mix.
Delivered measurable outperformance against forecast during the deal process, reinforcing credibility of the growth plan and increasing buyer confidence in execution capability.
Worked closely with founders and management throughout diligence, supporting articulation of the growth story, validating assumptions and responding to investor queries.
Played an active role through the transaction process to ensure alignment between operational performance, forecast assumptions and investor expectations.
The Results:
Outcome: The Current Future team delivered a material uplift in enterprise value at financial close compared to the initial valuation provided by a Big 4 firm at the commencement of the process.
Delivered by Kate Parker and Kristin Carlos
The Current Future difference
We embedded, built the growth story and the forecast behind it, and stepped back. The founders were left with a credible, defensible equity story, a sharper revenue mix, and the confidence to carry it through the deal.