MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
How does the Mergers and Acquisitions process work?
We offer a full advisory management service specifically for any business sector. Specialists in disposals and acquisitions ranging from $1,000,000 upwards. A dedicated team of professionals, providing a bespoke service across the globe.
Mergers and Acquisitions comprise different activities:
- Decision to buy/sell
- Funding (buyer)
- Identification of potential and actual targets (buyer & seller)
- Valuation (buyer/seller)
- Preparation of Offering Memorandum (seller)
- Due diligence (buyer & seller)
- Bidding (buyer & seller)
- Negotiation (buyer & seller)
- Paper work (buyer & seller)
- Completion (buyer & seller)
- Integration (buyer)
- Post-sale restructuring (seller)
Unless approached in a structured, process-based manner, mergers and acquisitions projects are likely to fail to achieve their objectives, even if the deals are completed. In any event, many potential transactions will fail to pass one of the points up to and including “Bidding”. It is important that businessmen get the right advice in these phases so that they do not waste time, money and effort on deals that are doomed to an eventual death.
For all deals, the post-completion phase is of critical importance. Understanding the issues that will come with this phase is a major part of the “go/no go” decision, as well as a major part in the negotiations and value-extraction mechanism. Typically, buyers and sellers underestimate the criticality of this phase. Consequently, many mergers and acquisitions deals fail to meet their objectives.
The art of good mergers and acquisitions service work lies in the ability to appreciate and deal with the detail of the transaction without that detail becoming an overwhelming and crushing force. There has to be a considerable amount of dynamic team work to ensure that all the key issues are covered, and their implications appreciated and factored into the deal.
Our mergers and acquisitions background equips us to:
Appreciate the complexities but to remain uncluttered and calm in our thinking
Gather and organize the appropriate professionals and other experts needed to cover any particular deal
Work on a commercial level whilst maintaining an appreciation and understanding of the legal and other issues that have to be addressed.GM Capital prepares most, if not all, of the required documentation Manage and conduct the negotiations.
Our Network of professional contacts equips us to mobilize, as required:
- Funding opportunities
- Specialist legal expertise in a range of countries
- Financial analysis capability
- Technical capabilities
- HR professionals
- Other experts