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We can guide you through the entire acquisition process – from analysing preliminary strategic considerations and initial indicative valuation to conducting buy-side due diligence and implementing our findings in the purchase agreement to analysing the closing accounts and integration.
PRE-DEAL SERVICES
We offer you an independent view of your transaction project and support you with strategy analyses, indicative valuations, selected pre-deal check analyses, as well as analyses of the financial and commercial terms of the Letter of Intent, and assistance in negotiating the Letter of Intent.
A potential buyer must fully understand the economic and financial situation of the target. As part of due diligence, we analyse the essential information and prepare it for you or your financing bank in a transparent manner to give you an optimal basis for your negotiations, drafting of the purchase agreement, and financing of the company acquisition.
We offer you a focused quick check for an initial risk assessment. This is aimed to efficiently identify significant financial transaction risks so that you can include them in your transaction and purchase price considerations.
We support you as a buyer in the purchase price negotiations so that you achieve the best possible result. Our services include scenario analyses, negotiation strategy, participation in negotiations and the drafting of financial clauses in purchase agreements, such as purchase price mechanisms or earn-out clauses.
We will analyse the closing transactions for you to help you determine the final purchase price.
Our mission is to make sure that you achieve your goals quickly and successfully – regardless of whether it is the sale of the entire company, a spin-off, or a carve-out. We support you throughout the entire sales process, analyse the strategic starting position and sales potential with you, prepare financial figures, draw up financial sales documents and support you in negotiations and the implementation.
Together with you, we evaluate the strategic starting position, prepare portfolio analyses and indicative valuations, identify arguments for the equity story, examine the sales potential of your company (“exit readiness”), and support you in the preparation of carve-out financials.
If prospective buyers find the necessary information base insufficient, this often leads to price reductions during the sales process. Carrying out vendor due diligence or preparing a financial factbook gives prospective buyers a transparent view of your company's net assets, financial position and results of operations and enables you to identify and, where possible, eliminate any issues that could reduce the selling price before the actual start of negotiations. In addition, the vendor due diligence or factbook reduces the burden on the seller in the due diligence phase and ensures a faster and more efficient transaction process.
Our transaction experts prepare you for discussions and negotiation meetings with prospective buyers, and compile or prepare the necessary financial information. We work with you to develop negotiation strategies and valuation scenarios and, if needed, also support you in contract negotiations.
Are you planning a capital increase or refinancing? Debt capital providers, whether banks or debt funds, need extensive information. As part of our refinancing due diligence, we analyse the areas of interest to the debt capital providers, process this information and present it in a transparent and fact-based manner. We thus enable an efficient financing process. This lets us identify and, where possible, eliminate or communicate to you financial issues that could be detrimental to financing at an early stage as part of our examination activities.
We will of course guide you through the entire financing process and support you in negotiations with debt capital providers.
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