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Strategic Transaction Management
About
Lantara Consulting
Lantara was founded to drive transformative success for clients through insightful guidance and tailored solutions. Every engagement is meticulously crafted to our client's unique context, challenges, and objectives. Lantara integrates smoothly into its clients' operations for projects, becoming an extension of the team – working side-by-side, not just in parallel.
Lantara’s goal is to become a long-term strategic ally, understanding the client's business deeply and providing support on critical transactional initiatives.
Lantara Business Consulting Services
Strategic Transaction Management
Our core mission is to optimize deal value and mitigate execution risk.
Lantara is a specialized consultancy providing strategic and tactical leadership throughout the entire transaction lifecycle — from pre-acquisition strategy and planning through post-acquisition integration.
Lantara’s engagement is defined by clear objectives, efficient execution, and measurable results, providing the dedicated bandwidth and specialized expertise to lead, coordinate, and manage complex projects.
Corporate Services
Lantara projects rarely live within a single department. They will include many parts of the client’s organization, requiring a delicate balance of technical understanding, people leadership and sophisticated communication skills. They will involve multiple interdependencies, diverse stakeholder groups, and a degree of uncertainty.
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Lantara’s goal is to help you build and execute a sustainable growth strategy that is customized to your business, while mitigating the risk of a “bad” acquisition and maximizing the opportunity for a successful outcome. Lantara can skillfully guide and support your organization through the implementation and execution of all phases of the acquisition process:
Strategy & Planning
Target Identification & Outreach
Due Diligence Navigation
Strategic Transaction Management & Negotiation
Integration Planning & Management
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Lantara is equipped to help your organization throughout the acquisition process, from pre-acquisition planning through post-acquisition integration:
Learning how to be an acquirer
Preparing for and strategically managing the transaction
Navigating the due diligence process
Strategically negotiating deal terms
Planning for and executing closing
Planning for and managing post-closing integration and synergy realization
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Recognizing the unique challenges faced by larger corporate clients, Lantara provides tailored and specialized assistance for corporate reorganization projects and divestitures/spin-offs, leveraging deep expertise to facilitate strategic decision-making and successful execution.
Personal Transaction Strategy Services
When you face a high-stakes transaction—selling your business or acquiring a business—you are essentially running a corporate M&A deal. Lantara brings corporate-grade transaction discipline to the individual buyer or seller. We act as your Strategic Quarterback, providing project management discipline and focus on risk mitigation and value optimization typically reserved for larger enterprises.
We tailor our strategic oversight to clients navigating transactions, serving Small-to-Midsize Business owners preparing for a successful exit (sell-side) or executing a strategic acquisition (buy-side).
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The sale of a small business can reach the Letter of Intent (LOI) stage and then fail during due diligence because of financial "skeletons," unwritten processes or key contracts, or other transaction unpreparedness that leads the buyer to lower the price or walk away entirely.
Our Goal: We help companies get ready for sale before they go to market.
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Lantara can serve as your dedicated, executive-level project manager, working alongside your existing team (attorneys, CPAs, brokers) in all phases of the transaction lifecycle:
Strategy & Preparation
Advisor Coordination
Negotiation Management
Due Diligence Navigation
Preparation for and Execution of Closing
Lantara Consulting is a business advisory firm and does not provide legal, tax, or accounting services.
Meet our Founder
Lantara Consulting was born out of founder Monica D. Tarasco’s two decades of experience working for a mid-size law firm, a boutique law firm, the corporate office of a public company (mining industry), and an operating company of a public holding company (building products industry). Over her career, Monica has worked on a wide range of projects in different capacities and, as she gained technical expertise, she honed skills as an effective communicator and relationship manager, uniquely situating her to orchestrate complex projects. Monica has an appreciation for the human factors in large-scale projects, and is particularly adept at handling those matters that fall outside of the excel spreadsheets and legal documents. Monica’s objective is to efficiently and effectively manage projects to successful completion, reducing the risks and avoiding the costs of unnecessary project delays.
While Monica continues to maintain an active legal practice, Lantara Consulting is a separate and distinct, non-legal entity. Our work here is focused exclusively on business consulting in the areas of growth and strategic execution.
Education
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Boston College
Gilmour Academy
Certifications
Negotiation Mastery, Harvard Business School Online
Financial Accounting, Harvard Business School Online
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