Business Advisory

Growing a business takes passion, commitment, time, and a lot of hard work. As business plans develop, many owners reach a point where they decide to buy an additional business as a way to expand or wish to sell their business and pursue new ideas or ventures.

Bringing organizations together through mergers and acquisitions, or creating new entities through separations and divestitures, are among the most complex business activities an organization will ever undertake. An end-to-end approach will help deliver value throughout the journey and beyond.

We take the time to listen and understand your priorities and pride ourselves on putting your interests first. We guide you through the process of buying, selling and integrating a new business. We help you plan and implement a smooth transition. Uniquely, we have the expertise to support you through the business aspects as well as communicating, engaging and retaining your people.

Our M&A client service focuses on several priorities:

Seamless end-to-end delivery from strategy and capital planning all the way through the final steps of integration execution, we help clients identify the best path to shareholder value.

Translating strategy into action. Few companies align their strategy and M&A program sufficiently. We help companies make these links explicitly and translate this into clear blueprints for making deals (acquisitions and separations)..

Restructuring & Integrating a business successfully means focussing equally on the logistics as well as your valuable people. We help you fulfil your obligations as an employer and positively communicate, engage and retain your valuable staff.

Developing your exit strategy and timing having taken the important decision to sell your business we help you ensure the timing of your sale is right for you, and your business is able to continue under new leadership.

Due Diligence is an important part of preparing your business for sale or deciding whether to buy a prospective business. in partnership with your professional advisors, we help you take an unbiased view of your business and its valuation. Taking due diligence to the next level with a fact-based, rigorously quantified assessment that helps you ward off deal fever, spot synergies others miss, and prepare for integration long before the deal is inked.

Capture maximum value from corporate acquisitions with a battle-tested approach to integration that mitigates the many risks that can undercut a deal’s anticipated synergies. Each party in the process of buying and selling a business will have different commercial priorities in mind. Putting your interests first, we help negotiate to achieve the best possible outcome for you.