Financial Advisory Solutions

The Financial Advisory Solutions (FAS) sector provides strategic and financial guidance to enterprises operating dual-use technologies.

Our FAS team integrates with client leadership to align financial strategy with mission requirements and a complex regulatory environment.

Our Team

Elara Nova's advisory teams bring decades of experience leveraging capital to achieve business growth objectives.

Where We Lead

Elara Nova’s Financial Advisory Solutions (FAS) team supports company growth, from strategy development to transaction preparation and evaluation.

If your needs require specific domain expertise, we incorporate partners from our space, air, cyber, and international teams to ensure a comprehensive and cohesive solution.

Our focus is simple: empower business growth in an evolving market environment.

How We Help

Strategic Corporate Advisory & Transaction Readiness

Prepare growth-stage and established enterprises for institutional investment, acquisitions, recapitalizations, and exit processes

Valuation & Financial Modeling

Empowers boards, investors, and executive leadership teams with independent, sector-specific valuation analyses and dynamic financial models to support financing, acquisition, and long-term strategic planning

Market & Competitive Intelligence

Identify opportunities and strengthen market positioning through comprehensive program-of-record mapping, defense-budget cycle analysis, customer concentration reviews, and competitive-positioning assessments

Quality of Earnings & Financial Diligence Support

Execute deals after rigorous pre-transactional financial reviews that normalize earnings, enhance reporting quality, identify risk areas, and build buyer and investor confidence

Growth Strategy & Capital Planning

Achieve sustainable growth by developing integrated operating and financing roadmaps that align technology maturation, contract pipelines, and organizational scaling with long-term capital requirements

Capital Advisory & Transaction Execution

Execute transactions through mergers and acquisitions, private capital formation, and strategic alternatives and liquidity planning through affiliated boutique investment-banking capabilities

Why Elara Nova?

Elara Nova empowers clients to:

  • Provide the foundational intelligence required for valuation, capital planning, and exit positioning
  • Align financial strategies with market opportunities
  • Unlock the required capital to cross the “Valley of Death” and bring capabilities from development to deployment
  • Navigate regulatory requirements to streamline the development, acquisition, and sustainment of capabilities
  • Translate mission and technical complexity into disciplined financial strategy
  • Prepare commercial companies for institutional growth and transaction readiness
  • Streamline strategic planning and deal execution
  • Facilitate government and commercial collaboration for both U.S. and Allied partner nations

Tailored Expertise

Our custom-built teams are designed to accelerate clients success:

$217.8M

C2 Contract Secured

Empowered a company to secure a $217.8M command and control data contract.

$2.8B

Program Secured

Generated strategy recommendations and a multi—member color team review resulting in a winner-take-all award.

$259M+

in Space Force Contracts

Enabled a company to secure $259M+ in contracts with U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command, MDA and SDA, including STRATFI funding.

6 Month

Faster Go-to-Market Entry

Delivered a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for an allied nation’s U.S. entity, accelerating U.S. government customer acquisition engagement.

16 Days

Rapid Technical Due Diligence Evaluation

Completed a full-spectrum technical and market analysis for a private equity firm evaluating TRL maturity, supply chain resilience, and competitive posture for informed investment decisions.

10 Year

Strategic Assessment Outlook

Delivered a decade-spanning strategic assessment integrating internal capabilities, R&D pathways, and government demand signals for an aerospace client.

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