Transaction Advisory
We manage all aspects of the confidential investment and acquisition of privately held small, mid-market and large companies. Our team has experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds in business, industry, finance and legal. We help you take crucial investment decisions and look forward to bringing our knowledge and expertise to enhance the success of your business.
If your growth strategy is to expand through acquisition, we can support you in achieving your acquisition goals by utilising our extensive network to identify potential targets that fit your acquisition criteria, valuing prospective acquisitions, and assist in negotiating and structuring the transaction once a suitable target is identified.
Investment Strategy
We help you to review your strategic options and the potential pursuit of growth by finding the right answers to the following key questions lurking in your mind.
- Should I grow my business further to maximize value?
- Would diversification be the right option to protect from adversarial changes in my core market?
- Should I acquire to increase critical mass and reduce costs?
- Is it time to sell my business to protect my capital?
- Is reducing my shareholding something I should consider to accelerate growth or to prepare my exit?
We will support, stimulate and challenge your point of view and enhance your strategic decision making process and help to establish the most appropriate growth strategy.
Business Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are two of today’s most important competitive tools used by companies in a rapidly changing global business landscape. It is important to be prepared and understand the processes and legalities involved in each step of the way while pursuing a mergers and acquisition transaction. Specifically, we help business leaders.
- Determine where M&A makes strategic sense.
- Identify and select the right markets.
- Recognize opportunities for mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
- Prepare their organizations to capitalize on deal opportunities and add value while minimizing risk.
Business Sales
Selling your business can be stressful and time consuming.While selling a company, being prepared not only means getting your books and records organized and preparing a descriptive executive summary of your company, it also involves educating yourself to properly address the common questions that will inevitably be asked by prospective acquirers. Properly preparing and addressing these questions will maximize an acquirer’s comfort level, reduce their perceived risk and increase valuation. We help you navigate this process and successfully sell your business.
Business Valuations
There are variety of reason of evaluating your business including sale value, establishing partner ownership, taxation etc. If you are looking to evaluate your business value, we will help determine the economic value of your whole business or company unit and preparation of valuation reports.
We use several methods of valuing a business exist, such as looking at its market cap, earnings multipliers, or book value, among others.
Due Diligence
Due Diligence is a vital activity in M&A transactions and conducting Due Diligence in today’s global marketplace is a demanding, high-pressure undertaking that requires considerable skill and expertise. Due Diligence helps investors confirm the strategic logic of investments based on detailed, unbiased facts about the target and its markets.Conducting a thorough Due Diligence exercise on the financial, legal and operational aspects helps acquirers:
- Understand the attractiveness of key market segments
- Determine if the target is positioned to win
- Make realistic forecasts and valuations
- Identify and manage risk, including attempts at ‘window-dressing’
- Chart a clear course for realizing value in the post-deal period
Our approach is forward looking, which will help you formulate and answer the big questions that determine whether a deal will create value.