Financial Advisory

From due diligence and valuations support to restructuring underperforming businesses, Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing Transaction Services offer vendors, purchasers and financiers all the necessary skills and expertise to serve every aspect of their transactions.

Tailored services, technical excellence, confidentiality and ethical behavior build the long-lasting relationships we share with our clients, whether large groups, mid-caps or private equity investors.

Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing Transaction Services is a dedicated team of professionals and partners within the Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing partnership.

A dedicated senior partner assigned to your particular project, coordinates sector and profession specific expertise within Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing in order to provide you with a personalized service.

1) Corporate finance

We advise foreign companies making acquisitions or seeking to sell an entity. We also advise companies in assessing targets overseas and preparing for sale to foreign investors.

Whether you are buying or selling a business, we will work closely with you to understand the main drivers behind your deal, your strategic plan going forward and the associated risks to ensure the scope of work is robust and meets the needs of your board, your financial backers or potential acquirer. Typically, our report will focus on a critical analysis of the historical and projected financial performance, including:

Identifying potential "deal breakers".
Highlighting issues which may lead to a purchase price adjustment.
Understanding the working capital requirement of the business.
We advise foreign companies making acquisitions or seeking to sell an entity. We also advise companies in assessing targets overseas and preparing for sale to foreign investors. Whether you are buying or selling a business, we will work closely with you to understand the main drivers behind your deal, your strategic plan going forward and the associated risks to ensure the scope of work is robust and meets the needs of your board, your financial backers or potential acquirer. Typically, our report will focus on a critical analysis of the historical and projected financial performance, including: Identifying potential ‘deal breakers'. Highlighting issues which may lead to a purchase price adjustment. Understanding the working capital requirement of the business.

At Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing, we manage your financial transactions.

Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing corporate finance advisers guide your financial transaction to a successful outcome.

Our advisory teams will work with you through the whole process until the deal is complete – through a sale, merger or acquisition.

We support you with:

Acquisitions - corporate acquisitions/mergers and acquisitions and management led transactions such as: management buy out (MBO), management buy in (MBI) and buy-in management buy out (BIMBO),
Disposals - corporate divestment programs, non-core business disposal (spin-off, carve-out) and retirement sales,
Raising funds - selecting the right type of funding (debt, equity or a mix, IPO) and developing an attractive proposition to potential funders; and
Valuations - an objective and independent service.

2) Due diligence

At Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing we assist you with acquisition due diligence and vendor due diligence.

Acquisition due diligence

At Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing we assist you with the management of acquisition processes.

Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing Transaction Services supports you at every stage of your project by:

Gaining an understanding of the performance of your target company,
Identifying and analyzing the business,
Cash and key value drivers behind the acquisition price,
Identifying potential risks, maximizing financial and tax positions,
Helping to draft price adjustment or warranty and indemnity clauses, then implementing them; and
Conducting a post-acquisition audit and preparing your opening balance sheet.

Through our financial due diligence, we help companies understanding an organisation's historical financial performance, it's on and off balance sheet assets and liabilities, and the key assumptions underpinning its projected performance is crucial to assessing the viability of a transaction and will ultimately influence the price you are willing to pay.

We also assist our clients during the purchase price adjustment phase through our procedures on the closing date balance sheet.

Vendor due diligence

We also help you handle sales processes.

We assist the vendor throughout the sale process with support to carve out accounting and financial data of the business considered for sale, assistance to set up the data room and develop a financial model to ensure the best price is obtained. Our advices aim also at reducing the business disruptions and accelerating the transfer to new owners.

Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing Transaction Services support you at every stage of your project by:

Identifying and prioritizing factors to increase the business value,
Compiling pro forma financial information,
Analyzing past performance and building or reviewing a business plan,
Organizing and managing data to showcase information,
Providing guidance at each phase of the negotiation process,
Maximizing your financial and tax positions,
Helping to draft a price adjustment or warranty and indemnity clause; and
Helping to manage any potential litigation and claims processes.

3) Valuation

At Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing we help you value your investments, business and assets.

We provide business valuations for a number of purposes. Using various models, including net realizable asset methodology, discounted cash flow techniques and utilizing stock market valuation methodology, we provide full business valuations.

Our valuation services are used for various purposes, including Purchase Price Allocation (PPA), impairment testing of goodwill or long lived assets in accordance with IFRS. Also, using the depth of Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing resources, we can provide valuation services for vanilla or complex derivatives or structured products.

You might want to forecast the financial effects of a business restructuring or determine an asset value during this process.

We assist you with the price allocation during an acquisition, or in understanding your own overheads and profits.

We work with you to:

Understand your business and sector - its prospects and its markets,
Identify the dynamic factors of the valuation,
Analyze past operational performances and forecast future financial results,
Apply discount rates and multiples,
Employ a systematic approach; and
Test the accuracy and sensitivity of business models.

4) Forensic and disputes

At Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing we deal with complex investigations and dispute resolution assignments and facilitate positive resolutions. This can include determining and documenting relevant facts and events, analyzing and concluding upon the impact of the financial information and providing assistance with negotiations.

Our Forensic and Dispute Services team has extensive experience of providing high-quality, timely and cost-effective investigations, advice and expert reports on a wide variety of financial and accountancy matters.

Business restructuring

At Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing we help you with your business restructuring issues.

If you find that your business is struggling, you will want to get to grips with any operational issues and get back to making a profit. Your business may need some restructuring, whether by improving your organizational structure or making internal operations more efficient.

Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing performs an operations review to identify operational inefficiencies, saving costs and reducing overheads. We will look at unprofitable business segments, divisions or affiliates and any weaknesses in systems, procedures and controls.

We help you during restructuring by:

Defining and implementing an overall strategic turnaround and restructuring plan,
Preparing a priority timeline for restructuring,
Providing operational consultation at each stage of the restructuring; and
Providing consultation services addressing bankruptcy issues.

We will also help you avoid future risk situations by:

Helping you understand the causes of the company's past shortfalls,
Assessing your business' short-term and long-term viability,
Preparing short and long-term financial projections and cash flows,
Developing operational tools and reports; and
Searching for business partners and merger or acquisition opportunities.

5) Tax services

At Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing we offer you tax advisory services.

Business Solutions Consulting and Auditing assists you with every transaction, whether it is refinancing, restructuring or an acquisition. We understand the implications transactions may have and we help you to minimize the transaction risk.

Combining our cross-border transaction experience and local tax knowledge, we will ensure that you make well-considered decisions and deal with the tax implications in the best way possible.