Our advice can help you with your analysis and valuation of the target, the identification of key issues, and your bid tactics. Post approach, we are able to assist with more detailed analysis and support you in your negotiations. Our role complements the separate roles of your financial and legal advisers. Typically, we assist in the following areas:
- Pre-approach evaluation: We carry out a detailed evaluation of the target, based initially on a confidential analysis of information in the public domain and our own sources, which aims to identify key risks and opportunities, and to inform your valuation thinking.
- Due Diligence and Valuation: Based on our initial evaluation we develop a due diligence approach tailored to your specific transaction, and focused on the key valuation issues.
- Synergies and integration: We help you value the potential revenue and cost synergies, develop a synergies case and advise on the initial integration planning.
- Transaction structuring advice: We devise transaction structures from an accounting, financing, working capital, tax, HR and pensions perspective.
- Transaction impact on the bidder: We assess the potential earnings, balance sheet and tax implications of the transaction on your financial statements.
