Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
Guidance through acquisition and merger processes: target screening, due diligence, structuring and completion.
Most acquisitions that disappoint were decided before diligence began, and diligence then became a search for reasons to proceed. The discipline that protects a buyer is defining the mandate first: what the acquisition is for, what it must contain, and the price above which it stops being worth doing.
We support the process from screening through completion: identifying and approaching targets, coordinating financial and commercial due diligence, structuring the transaction, and working alongside legal counsel, our sister firm Okyere Consult, to closing. Where diligence surfaces something that changes the case, we say so, including when that means advising against the deal.
What’s included
- Acquisition mandate definition and target screening
- Financial and commercial due diligence coordination
- Valuation and offer strategy
- Deal structuring and negotiation
- Completion support alongside legal counsel (Okyere Consult)
Common questions
- What does due diligence actually cover?
- At minimum: the financial records and the assumptions behind them, tax exposures, material contracts and their change-of-control terms, employment obligations, litigation, and the condition of licences and regulatory permissions. Commercial diligence (whether the customers and market are what the seller describes) is frequently where the substantive findings are.
- How do we avoid overpaying?
- Set the walk-away price before negotiations start and against the mandate rather than against the asking price, then hold to it. Most overpayment happens late, after time and cost have been sunk and stopping feels like failure.
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