Emerging Enterprises and Technology

Life Cycle Dynamics of Fast-Growing Companies

The Emerging Enterprises and Technology team at Blackman Kallick provides expertise to companies ranging from early to later-stage development in both growth and investment cycles — offering guidance and direction to a multitude of emerging enterprises including technology, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and green energy. 

At Blackman, we start every client relationship by asking the question, “Where do you see your company in one year, three years, and ten years?” (This “Emerging Enterprise Readiness Review” is a complimentary service.) Then we help you achieve your vision by ensuring that you have the infrastructure and procedures in place to avoid the mistakes that can slow down — and inevitably derail — fast-growing emerging growth companies.

We support your decision making during each stage of your business’s growth by:

  • Helping you manage and properly address the multitude of accounting issues you are facing such as . . .
    • Complex or alternative equity structures 
    • Complex revenue recognition issues
    • Share-based compensation and other compensatory issues
    • Appropriate ownership structures
    • Accounting for intellectual property, goodwill, and intangibles
  • Identifying and obtaining new sources of capital funding 
  • Keeping you updated with the ever-shifting landscape of rules and regulations
  • Meeting the expectations of funding sources, stakeholders, regulatory bodies, and future investors
  • Making introductions and connections to create natural synergies 
  • Facilitating business combinations, including due diligence
  • Addressing challenges and finding solutions for expanding operations internationally, drawing on the resources of HLB International, our worldwide network of independent public accounting firms and business advisors

In short, our Emerging Enterprises and Technology team provides the necessary structure and acumen to support your unique growth plans and the needs of your investors and other partners — allowing your leaders to focus on reaching your business goals.

Your Partner in Growth

You need a business advisor who understands the issues that accompany growth. We evaluate the best path and help you achieve your goals, whether it’s through an ultimate sale, acquisition, IPO, international expansion, or a combination of these strategies.

Our Emerging Enterprises and Technology team includes professionals who have served closely held, publicly held (SEC), and private-equity-owned companies. This diverse experience allows the Blackman Emerging Enterprises and Technology team to counsel clients on the full range of growth options and exit strategies, providing our clients with a best-practice approach for structure and corporate governance based on their objectives for near-term and long-term growth.

Our services include:

  • Entry-level consulting with start-up and development-stage companies 
  • Financial statement audits and reviews
  • In-depth knowledge and counsel on complex accounting matters
  • Support during the IPO process
  • Corporate and individual tax planning and consulting services, including identification of federal and state tax credits and tax-efficient structuring of a business combination
  • Annual tax compliance
  • Valuation services
  • Financial due diligence for mergers and acquisitions
  • Executive search and temporary staffing to connect you with the financial talent necessary to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting

Experience Makes All the Difference

With more than 25 years of experience serving both public and emerging companies, our professionals understand the opportunities, risks, and pitfalls that you face on a daily basis. 

We also understand that each phase of your growth requires cost-effective and yet forward-thinking strategies to prepare you for what’s right around the corner as well as what's on the horizon. 

Get on the Right Path.  Right Away.

If your emerging enterprise requires guidance from tested, well-rounded advisors, please contact us for a complimentary “Emerging Enterprise Readiness Review” discussion.


This publication is part of Blackman Kallick’s marketing of professional services, and is not written tax advice directed at the specific facts and circumstances of any person and/or entity. Contents of this publication are of a general nature, and you should not act on this information without obtaining professional advice from your business advisor that is appropriately tailored to your individual needs and circumstances. This written advice is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be imposed under the Internal Revenue Code.