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Adjusted Until It Flatters: Why Caribbean CEOs Must Test Every EBITDA Adjustment

September 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Caribbean CEOs Must Read Ratios, Not Just Results IN BRIEF Almost no business is sold, refinanced or valued on the EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) in its accounts. It is valued on an adjusted figure, after owner costs, one-off events and planned savings have been added back. Some adjustments are legitimate...

Corporate Governance Dawgen Value Architecture Dawgen Value Architecture™Mergers & Acquisitions mergers and acquisitions (M&A)Private and Family-Owned Businesses Private Company Advisory

REALISATION : A Business You Cannot Explain in Five Days Is a Business Somebody Else Will Price

August 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 6. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality...

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Post-Merger Integration Case Study: How a Caribbean Insurance Group Planned Day 1, One Hundred Days and Year-One Value Realization

April 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Most Caribbean Insurance Integrations Underdeliver — and What Changed Here Across the Caribbean, financial services integrations typically capture between forty and fifty-five per cent of committed year-one synergies, often at the cost of at least one material service disruption and at least one regulatory finding. The integration described in this Standard delivered seventy-one per...

Vendor Due Diligence Case Study: How a Caribbean Manufacturing Group Prepared for a Future Sale from a Position of Strength

April 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Sell-Side Readiness, Before the Process Begins A family-controlled Caribbean manufacturing group had begun to field unsolicited approaches from regional and international acquirers. The shareholders knew that if a transaction proceeded, the business would need to be presented with the discipline of an institutional seller — and that the quality of the eventual outcome would...

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Minority Investment Case Study: How a Caribbean Fintech Platform Raised Institutional Capital Without Giving Up Founder Control

April 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A Minority Investment Built to Protect the Operator’s Runway A profitable Caribbean fintech platform was ready to raise institutional capital for the first time. Its founders did not want to sell the business, dilute their strategic control, or commit to an exit timeline that did not match their ambitions. The engagement described in this Standard...