Corporate Finance

We offer a wholly-focused approach without the conflict from other accountancy services or the distraction that general multi-disciplined practices face. Our unrivalled experience enables us to offer more to our clients, by providing imaginative business solutions within a wider commercial perspective. Whether acting on your behalf in corporate transactions, providing solutions, or advising on strategic development issues and succession planning, each assignment is led from the outset by one of our highly experienced Partners.

Company Disposals

We advise as project managers on the sale of companies for individual shareholders, financial institutions, listed companies and multinationals. A company disposal can be a challenging process where maintaining confidentiality is paramount in protecting and maximising the goodwill value of your Company.

Our Partners are vastly experienced, not only in the technical aspects of a sale but also in dealing with the less tangible 'emotive' issues that occur during the lifecycle of a transaction.

Whilst each transaction is different, the suite of services offered for a disposal assignment include:-

• Independent Business Valuation based on our experience and co-ordinated research into recent deal activity
• Detailed research into the domestic and international market place to establish known acquirers and potential suitors, refined through our commercial judgement and contacts;
• Production of a Professional Information Memorandum to properly introduce the opportunity;
• Discreet approaches to potential acquirers;
• Negotiation of the deal structure and relevant terms and conditions;
• Management of the due diligence process;
• Co-ordination of the legal process to ensure a commercial perspective is always maintained; and
• 'Driving' the deal to ensure a timely completion.

Corporate Acquisition

Whether you already have a target in mind or need us to identify a business that fits with your growth strategy, our hands-on, practical advice will ensure you achieve your corporate goals.

We work with you to develop your acquisition strategy and, using our dedicated research resource, identify appropriate targets both in the UK and abroad. Once a short-list has been agreed, we initiate discussions with these companies and advise you on the value, both financially and commercially, of each opportunity. We then lead the transaction, managing all facets of the process on your behalf, including raising additional finance, through to a successful acquisition

MBO's & MBI's

We are highly experienced in providing advice to both MBO and MBI individuals and teams with significant expertise and support available to help management teams realise their ambitions.

As a MBO/MBI candidate or team, we will work closely with you in order to develop and negotiate the most appropriate deal structure, introduce you to and advise on the most suitable providers of finance, and manage the transaction process through to completion. Once the transaction is completed, we would hope to maintain our relationship with you by continuing to provide financial and strategic business advice.

We have built strong relationships with leading venture capital firms and providers of debt and mezzanine finance, offering credibility from the outset, enabling us to introduce you to the most appropriate providers of finance.

We work proactively with a small number of high calibre MBI candidates and teams to identify key opportunities and negotiate deals on their behalf. If you have the knowledge and expertise involved in managing a business and have the drive and commitment to become an owner-manager, then please CONTACT US to provide some background on yourself and the opportunity you seek and we will invite you to a no-obligation meeting with one of our Partners.

Refinancing Capital

As your business expands and matures, its existing financing facilities may no longer satisfy its working capital and financial needs.

We will develop a detailed understanding of your business and its specific current and future requirements, formulate an applicable solution and introduce you to suitable providers of finance.

Once a funder has been identified, we will supply them with the information they need, negotiate on your behalf and ensure that your business's specific financial requirements are met.

Through a similar approach, we often work with owner managers who wish to realise or safeguard an element of their investment in their Company through the extraction of either a lump sum or phased withdrawals of capital, whilst continuing to retain ownership.

We can assist by offering an innovative approach to the deal and funding structure, introducing the most suitable funders and through project managing the process.

Business Valuations

Based on our collective experience, we are well placed to advise you on the valuation of your business.

We regularly undertake valuation exercises for clients who are embarking, for example, upon share buy-back schemes, tax planning initiatives such as group reorganisations or who are simply seeking the true and fair value of their investment.

We are also acknowledged experts on the subject of Business Valuations and have offered advice for use in litigation and matrimonial dispute cases.