Assisting you achieve successful outcomes which minimizes financial and commercial risk.
We can assist in any or all of the following acquisition stages:
Strategy and Planning
- Strategic planning
- Market study
- Candidate criteria
- Pricing matrix
- Funding options and risk
Initiation
- Identification
- Solicitation (from “tap on the shoulder” to more extensive)
- Qualification
- Collection of data
- Preliminary due diligence
- Synergy identification
Execution
- Tactical objectives
- Best practices
- Synergies in first 100 days
- Synergies beyond 100 days
Post-acquisition
- Maximizing Price
- Special Value
- Synergies
- Structure (e.g. tax effective, cash v. non-cash, deferred)
- Maintain bid price
- Cross Border Arbitrage
- Following an efficient effective process
- Maintain Confidentiality in an effective and practical manner
- Maintain competitive tension
- Minimize impact on business
- Liaise with other professional advisers (tax, legal) to maximise benefit gained and minimize costs
- Minimizing Risk
- Process
- A good deal falling over
- A bad deal continuing
- Contractual
- Being sued post settlement
- Closing accounts/ closing adjustments (increase likelihood that price will go up, not down!)
- Process
