When making acquisitions, it is important for companies to seek to maximize return on investment while avoiding excessive expenditures by focusing on calculating appropriate acquisition prices and zeroing in on business synergies. Likewise, when making sales, it is essential for companies to properly ascertain risks in advance, thoroughly address due diligence (DD) questions, and prepare for thoughtful negotiations.
ABeam Consulting’s financial advisory (FA) and corporate valuations support service offers comprehensive support, including for internal decision making. Our experienced consultants offer end-to-end support, working with experts in legal and tax affairs.
Financial Advisory (FA) and Corporate Valuations
Solution
ABeam manages processes that respect timelines, including internal decision making processes, and supports negotiations
Background
The importance of quick and effective transactions in an era of globalization
M&A is an important means for companies to improve their competitiveness in the market or as part of their growth strategies. Particularly in today's globalizing world, they are faced with the need for quick and effective transactions. Corporate valuation and financial advisory (FA) support is essential for calculating appropriate acquisition prices, minimizing risk and bringing about success in negotiations. This can enable companies to achieve sustainable growth and secure competitive advantage.
Challenges
ABeam clarifies the priority of discussion points and executes the deal process in pursuit of speedy decision-making
M&A (buy-side)
- Ascertaining fair value and ensuring that explanations for premiums are reasonable
When the acquisition price of a target company exceeds its fair value, it is necessary to think about how to explain the premium this gap represents reasonably - Executing on the process for explaining premiums
It is necessary to conduct things like management interviews and business analyses on a limited timeline to gather the necessary evidence to determine the reasonableness of premiums
M&A (sell-side)
- Appealing the merits of a business subject to sale
It is necessary for companies identify the problem points and risks of a deal ahead of time, avoid demands for price reductions and breakdowns in talks during DD, and appeal the merits of their business in pursuing a sale
Approach
M&A (buy-side)
Our M&A (buy-side) service offers end-to-end support from early-stage valuations of target companies through to formulation of acquisition criteria, execution of various forms of DD and handling closing. During DD, in particular, we are able to offer comprehensive support in partnership with external partners who are experts in legal and tax domains.
M&A (sell-side)
Our M&A (sell-side) service offers end-to-end support for the entire sale process from advance preparations for a sale through to handling closing, including the preparation of information memoranda (IM), drafting sale schedules and preparing you to undergo management interviews and various forms of DD.
Key Features
Support from strategy consultants well-versed in corporate finance and business
Understanding the business models and operations of target companies and industries is essential for formulating policies such as acquisition criteria and sale aims, and for conducting DD. ABeam Consulting offers support from strategy consultants with experience in strategy formulation across a broad swathe of industries, on top of corporate finance services.
The ability to set discussion points that enable efficient due diligence
It is important to set discussion points that allow you to evaluate target companies without wasting time so that you can perform adequate DD to make decisions on M&A deals in a limited period of time. ABeam supports the setting of effective discussion points through research and management interviews.
Support from an neutral perspective
ABeam charges a fixed consulting fee, enabling us to offer support from a neutral perspective.
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