We work with lower middle market companies navigating distress, transition, and growth — extracting value where others see only complexity.
We stabilize companies under financial pressure and guide them through operational, balance sheet, and stakeholder restructurings — preserving value and building a foundation for sustainable recovery.
Strategic counsel for owners, boards, and management teams at inflection points — whether facing a sale, acquisition, transition, or fundamental strategic shift.
We bring our financial expertise directly into your organization — providing the CFO-level leadership, systems, and analytical rigor that growing companies need but rarely have.
Rising debt service, contracting demand, and overbuilt capacity have put hundreds of brewery owners in an untenable position. We specialize in SBA debt restructuring and clean exits for craft breweries — and we know this market.
In brewing, the lauter tun is the vessel with a false bottom — separating what's valuable from what isn't, letting clarity rise to the surface.
It's an apt metaphor for what we do. Complex situations — distressed balance sheets, operational inefficiencies, unclear strategy — require the same discipline: patient separation of signal from noise, structure from chaos, potential from liability.
We bring decades of operating and financial experience to bear on exactly that problem. Not theoretical frameworks, but hands-on work alongside management teams to identify what's working, fix what isn't, and build a clear path forward.
We cut through complexity to identify the core issues — financial, operational, and strategic.
Seasoned professionals with direct experience in restructuring, M&A, and financial leadership.
We work alongside your team, not above it — embedding in your organization to drive real change.
A representative sample of the restructuring, finance, and advisory work we have done. Each case is detailed fully — with real numbers and an honest account of what we did.
$6.51M in debt across a senior lender, SBA, and trade creditors — addressed without a bankruptcy filing, using Article 9 and the SBA's OIC process. This was our own company. We know this process because we lived it.
SOP design, inventory management, and AI automation built around the physical processes hourly back-of-house staff actually follow. Clean data from the loading dock to the C-suite — $2.44M in annualized savings, 8.5 points off prime cost, 50+ management hours returned each week.
A multi-location restaurant group with a proven concept and three units in development needed investor-grade materials to close their growth raise. We built the model, the memo, and managed all diligence. The deal closed.
Lautertun Partners is a specialized advisory firm focused exclusively on lower middle market companies — businesses with $5M–$50M in revenue that require serious expertise but are underserved by large advisory firms.
Our principals have guided companies through every stage of the business lifecycle: from crisis stabilization to growth, from founder succession to institutional sale. We understand the urgency, complexity, and human weight of these situations.
We are operators as well as partners. We have sat in the CFO seat, led creditor negotiations, closed acquisitions, and restructured organizations. When we advise, it is from experience — not from a playbook.
Every engagement begins with a candid, confidential call — no pitch, no pressure, no commitment. Most people leave that first conversation with a clearer picture of their options, regardless of whether we work together. Reach out and we'll find 15 minutes.