Corporate Finance
The role of corporate finance is often played during critical times in the history of a business. Whether you are expanding, restructuring, seeking new market opportunities or disposing a business, you need a team of advisors with the broad experience required to achieve the best possible result for you. Double Pillars corporate finance team has the expertise that comes only from repeatedly completing successful transactions. this we've achieved for clients across a variety of sectors and for every size of enterprise- from owner managed businesses to multi-nationals. whatever your objective, we can mobilize a team that will bring the most effective level of expertise to the table with a commitment to achieving a successful outcome that matches, or even exceeds your expectations.
Our corporate finance offerings fall into four distinct areas of expertise:
- Acquisitions
- Capital raising
- Valuations
- Corporate structuring and re-organization
Acquisitions, disposals and mergers
- Help with expanding in your current market.
- Identifying target acquisitions.
- Managing the acquisition process-whether buying a company, part of a company, its shares, trade or assets.
- Intermediary support in buying and selling businesses.
- Complete corporate acquisitions, Management Buy Out (MBO), Management Buy In (MBI) and Buy In together with a Management Buy Out (BIMBO).
- Comprehensive due diligence investigations.
- Disposals, including corporate divestment programmers, non-core business disposal and retirement sales.
Capital Raising
- Advice on the right funding strategy for your business from owner managed businesses to large private companies and listed companies.
- Selecting the right type of funding-whether debt, equity or a mix-and developing a tight proposition that is attractive to potential founders.
- Structuring transactions, from debt and equity through to IPO's.
Valuations
We provide an objective and independent service that covers;
- Business Valuations
- Share Valuation
- Indicative value exercises as part of lead advisory and transaction support services
- Viability studies and capital investment appraisal
Corporate structuring and re-organization
We often encounter groups or companies that, due to the ad-hoc nature of their evolution, suffer an irrelevant or even cumbersome corporate structure. The proliferation of companies within a group often leads to inefficiencies and needless expense. For example, copious statutory returns, undue demands upon management and treasury and the inability to set losses off against profits can draw heavily on any groups human and financial resources. We deliver an expert service in the restructuring of corporate groups in order to maximize efficiency. We are particularly skilled in utilizing the complex ‘corporate rules’ to affect restructuring without creating CGT and income tax exposures.
We can also help you with:
- Business support in the form of plans, budgets and cash flows
- Fair and reasonable evaluation and reports
- Specialist management information reviews
- Supply chain management and project management
- Transaction support