Our team has extensive experience of advising on various of M&A transaction.  These includes:

 

• bids for listed companies, including recommended transactions, unsolicited approaches and outright hostile bids;

• advising Boards of listed companies on preparing for and responding to takeover approaches, including defence against unsolicited or hostile bids where this is the appropriate course of action;

• domestic and cross-border transactions;

• private transactions, including mandated sales and acquisitions of privately held companies;

• leveraged buy-outs, acting for both financial sponsors and for counterparties on LBO transactions, and

• co-ordinate due diligence.

Corporate Advisory

 

Our Corporate Advisory capabilities offer a variety of services including:

Our private equity advisory business provides advice to unlisted growth companies seeking financing to support their expansion and/or change in ownership.  We advise on:

 

• development capital;

• management buy-outs, and

• exit planning.

 

We provide guidance in all areas of private equity, including deal structuring, shareholder agreements and debt financing for buy-outs. We also assist companies and their owners in planning and assessing options for shareholder exits, including trade sales, secondary buy-outs, IPOs and recapitalisations.

At various stages of a private company's life-cycle, its current owner will inevitably evaluate the option to exit or reduce their shareholding in the business. Such decision are often motivated by personal lifestyle objectives, such as retirement, or diversifying their wealth as part of a prudent personal financial risk management plan.

 

Our team provides a strategic approach to managing the ownership transition process that enables the owners to maximise the value of such a transition whist balancing expectation of family members and other stakeholders such as senior management.

Corporate restructuring often occurs following an in-depth strategic review. Subsequently, the decision is often that certain activities of the business are no longer core operations or that greater value can be extracted by a different ownership structure and/or management group. We advise on:

 

• demergers;

• spin-offs, and

• other forms of corporate restructuring.