OUR CORPORATE FINANCE EXPERTISE
Our team of Corporate Finance professionals help both buy and sell-side M&A advisory firms by providing consistent support throughout the process.
We acknowledge how stressful these transactions can be not just for the involved parties but for advisory firms as well that they engage. Our goal is to make that process as smooth and efficient as possible.
OUR M&A SUPPORT SERVICES
TARGET IDENTIFICATION & PROFILING
We help buy-side firms identify potential merger/acquisition targets through our creative thinking and expert view of the marketplace. We reduce your effort and optimise the entire research process by directing your focus towards carefully researched and shortlisted company profiles that are the best fit as per your strategy, objectives and capabilities.
COMMERCIAL DUE DILIGENCE
We contribute towards your decision-making process and by helping you avoid ‘bad deals’ by carefully analysing the shortlisted target company’s market position which includes an analysis of its products/services, market share, strategic partnerships, customer feedback etc.
M&A VALUATION & MODELING
Our experienced analysts can help you evaluate potential target companies by using different valuation techniques in order to assess the target company’s standalone value as well as the post-synergy value.
Valuation is at the core of all M&A activities. Assessing a business’s value is the starting point to a transaction whether you are a buyer or seller. A valuation of assets at an early stage of the M&A process enables a buyer to understand the seller’s motivation for the transaction. Producing a robust valuation requires a detailed analysis of the business, and understanding of its key value drivers, its competitive strengths and weaknesses and the risks as well as opportunities it faces.
This detailed analysis is essential for:
- assessing the reasonableness and risks of future income streams which are the foundation of income-based valuations;
- identifying benchmark comparables which are the basis of valuation under the market approach.
Our team has extensive experience in valuing companies and assets across a broad range of industry sectors. We draw on our extensive sector knowledge derived from both consultancy and executive management experience to determine the appropriate valuation methodology to provide well-informed, insightful, robust and transparent valuation opinions.
BUY-SIDE SERVICES
Our expertise for buy-side transactions include:
SELL-SIDE SERVICES
Our expertise for sell-side transactions include:
SPECIALIST SUPPORT FOR IN-HOUSE M&A TEAMS
- We provide specialist support to in-house M&A teams for our institutional clients. This offering focuses on providing specialist sector and transaction advice to larger corporates, helping to successfully deliver clients’ M&A strategies.
- We provide an alternative approach to delivering M&A services, tailored to the in-house team’s needs. Our service helps clients to benefit from the comfort of our M&A advisory expertise, and the ability to utilise selected services as required.
- This service can be particularly suited to complex transactions or where an in-house team is busy managing multiple processes.
IB PITCHBOOKS
We often hear how bankers like to complain about, well a lot of things, but the top of the list is undoubtedly “investment banking pitch books.” Most analysts swear that you will devote all your hours to creating these documents, while others say that they’re extremely time-consuming but not that terrible to create.
Nevertheless, it is a burden they are always willing to share, or even better, transfer to someone else given the opportunity. We help IB analysts prepare pitchbooks for their M&A clients in order to help them persuade a client or potential client to take action and pay for the bank’s services. If the pitchbook is being used by investment advisors, it may include their biographical information such as experience, educational qualifications, licenses, and industry awards. The sales team of an investment bank uses the details outlined in the pitchbook to sell its services to potential clients.
We make the following types of Pitchbooks
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FAQ
Our fee structure varies depending on the project and our relationship with the client. For longer term projects we charge monthly retainers, and for ongoing engagements (for eg with M&A advisory firms) we charge either a fixed fee or an hourly rate per project. The actual fee depends on the number of analysts working with you.
There is no minimum tenure as such but we do like to sign a contract and fix a contract term.
It depends on the nature and complexity of the project and of course what the client wants. Usually it's a team of experts working on a project but for a project with fixed deliverables, we usually assign a dedicated analyst to the client.
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