
Private Company Audits, Reviews, Compilations, Agreed Upon Procedures:
We provide value-based quality assurance services to our clients and their stakeholders, ranging from regional banks to private equity groups. We recognize that each client is unique. Therefore, our professionals utilize sophisticated tools, along with extensive experience, and a dose of common sense to each engagement. We design services, as much more than traditional audits. Our client’s success is directly linked to maintaining the confidence of their stakeholders. We help our clients by assessing procedures and internal controls, performance measurements, systems reliability, and information security.
Public Company Audits and Reviews:As specialists in the realm of public company accounting and reporting, the professionals of Anton & Chia, LLP go to great lengths to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of required financial reporting, compliance and transaction-related issues for our public clients. We assist our clients in preparing for and meeting obligations in the increasingly complex regulatory environment of public companies in order to comply with rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and obligations promulgated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Our public company clients benefit from a variety of audit, accounting, reporting and filing services, including:
- Audits of public company financial statements for inclusion in the Annual Report to the SEC (or Form 10-K)
- Review of interim financial information in Quarterly Reports (or Form 10-Q)
- Assistance with preparation of narratives and tables included in SEC filings, specializing in disclosures contained in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
- Assistance with complex computations affecting amounts recorded or disclosed in financial statements, including compensation as a result of the issuance of stock options and earnings per share
- Evaluation of mergers and acquisitions, including audits of acquired enterprises
Going Public Transactions:
- Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPES)
- Other Public Equity Offerings
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Debt Financing
- Private Equity Financing
- Initial / Alternative Public Listings and Reverse Mergers
We have extensive experience with corporate finance transactions, particularly in public company offerings. In addition, we have significant experience in other forms of debt and equity offerings, including secondary offerings, 144A offerings, Reg S offerings, convertible debt and bridge financings.
We also have extensive experience with taking private companies public, whether through an underwritten IPO, an initial listing by filing a registration statement or a reverse merger. Our professionals are early pioneers of using a reverse merger coupled with a PIPE offering to provide private companies with an alternative method of going public and raising money and have completed or advised on numerous such transactions. We have successfully taken private companies public in this manner and have guided them to listings on National Stock Exchanges such as the NASDAQ and AMEX.
Our experience in PIPEs and going public transactions have allowed us to build a large network of funding sources and service providers to which our clients can avail themselves to for a successful transaction. We are well known to have connected many of our clients to contacts within the finance and investment banking community for public entity financings including PIPE offerings, equity lines, convertible preferred financings, follow on offerings, mezzanine debt, private placements and traditional commercial banking.
Shell Companies:
We provide low cost and efficient shell auditing services. We are also well connected with attorneys that can provide appropriate legal and financial due diligence to ensure that you enter a clean reverse merger transaction.
Tax Compliance (Personal and Corporate):
At Anton & Chia, LLP, we recognize that proper income tax preparation and filing is essential to successful tax planning for our clients, and thus forms the basis of our tax practice. Our commitment to thoroughly understanding each client's detailed tax data, coupled with our superior technical expertise in the tax code and tax agencies, produces a comprehensive framework for developing innovative tax solutions. These creative tax-planning programs meet the precise financial needs and objectives of each client. Plus, our knowledge of audit-triggers and effective presentation techniques allows us to minimize potential areas of exposure in audit environments.
Valuation Services:
We can provide the following valuation and advisory services for our clients:
- Business Appraisal
- Valuations for Tax and Financial Reporting
- Business Combinations, Goodwill, Intangible Assets, I.P. and Impairment Analysis
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP)
- Fairness Opinions
- Equities/Securities, Stock Options, Preferred Equities, Debt Securities, Minority Shares and Fractional Interest
- Estate and Gift Tax Purposes
- Pass Through Entities
- Machinery and Equipment Appraisal
- Litigation/Audit Support and Expert Testimony
- Merger & Acquisition and Valuation Advisory
- Allocation of Purchase Price
