The right support for your transactions - Ernst & Young - Estonia

No matter what the deal — acquisition or divestment, restructuring, joint venture or IPO — our network of experienced transaction support professionals can help you achieve your strategic goals.

We work with many of the world’s largest organizations, fastest growing companies and private equity firms on some of the most complex deals in the global market. We can tailor our comprehensive financial, commercial, accounting and people knowledge to your specific needs. Over 1,500 dedicated transaction professionals around the world provide financial, tax, IT, operational, HR, commercial, and legal due diligence. Working with our industry colleagues, we provide an integrated approach that fits the needs of your particular business — to help you make your transaction a success.

We provide the following TS services:

Buy-side financial due diligence: A key element of the pre-acquisition transaction process is the financial due diligence. We work with our clients to co-develop a scope of investigation to meet with their requirements.

In addition to the financial due diligence investigation offered by Transaction Support, we will develop the scope to cover any specific client concerns using specialists from other areas with Ernst & Young. This may include advice on taxation, technology, employment matters or commercial issues.

In reporting our findings, we ensure that the key strategic, pricing and assurance issues are addressed in an agreed deliverable format to suit the client’s needs. At the same time, we highlight the key action points and considerations for our clients arising from our review.

Vendor due diligence: We assist our clients in maximizing disposal proceeds through preparation and presentation of the business to new investors.

Vendor due diligence is a key component of an efficient sales process as it allows for multiple purchasers to be simultaneously involved in a competitive auction process with minimal disruption to the client and transaction timetable. In short, our services can help meet our client’s agenda – maximizing value and minimizing disruption.

Ernst & Young’s Transaction Support team can assist you through the process from the pre-disposal planning phase through to the execution of the sale, maximizing the value delivered:

• Pre sale diagnostics – working with management to evaluate and consider all the strategic options to ensure that an informed decision is reached.
• Process enhancement – making the sales process as efficient as possible by minimizing disruption and identifying transaction issues early.
  

Commercial and operational due diligence: Commercial due diligence helps our clients in making great investments by resolving key value issues.

Operational Improvement team is primarily focused on providing a better understanding of the improvement potential of transactions pre-completion, thus ensuring our clients have a more thorough understanding of how to unlock value post-completion.