Transaction Support
Our global network of experienced Transaction Support professionals can help our clients achieve their strategic goals, whether they are acquiring or divesting, restructuring or embarking on a joint venture. 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 and can tailor our comprehensive financial, commercial, accounting and people knowledge to our clients’ businesses. We offer objective, responsive advice about potential value and risk, and can provide confidence around key questions and the numbers. Our focus is on helping our clients to improve their growth, profitability and competitiveness, and our global reach means that, wherever they are in the world, we can help them get the facts they need to achieve the value their investors expect. We believe in providing an integrated approach that meets the particular needs of each individual client. Accordingly, we do provide the following support:
- Work with our clients throughout the year, not just when a deal arises
- Build relationships with our clients’ key decision-makers
- Discuss and understand our clients’ strategy, future options, and range of potential deals
- Provide our clients with an integrated team that can address financial, tax, IT, operational, employee benefit, market, competitor, and management matters
Our advisory approach consists of five elements:
- Assistance in deal structuring
- Identification of key issues
- Due diligence process
- Negotiation assistance
- Post-closing assistance
Beyond the traditional financial due diligence, we are able to provide our clients with integrated recommendations by exploiting the extensive experience residing within the global Ernst & Young network of independent member firms.
Buy-side due diligence
We assist acquirers/investors pre-acquisition in analyzing target companies to identify:
- Factors which may affect the strategic rationale of the transaction
- The value assessed by the acquirer (including providing information to assist negotiation of downward value changes)
- Protection required by the acquirer in the sale and purchase agreement
- Issues that may need to be dealt with post-acquisition
Our approach is flexible, focusing on the critical factors affecting historical operating results, as well as on the entity’s ability to generate sustainable earnings. We work with our clients to design a customized approach to due diligence that focuses on the deal issues that matter most.
Sell-side services
Sell-side services include sell-side due diligence, advisory services and vendor due diligence which help our clients:
- Prevent value erosion as we help sellers to identify potential buyer issues
- Accelerate transaction close as it frees up management time and identifies issues to bring to the attention of the seller early in the process
- Provide analyses that help potential investors become comfortable quickly, allowing the offers received to be of higher quality
- Reduce disruption to the company’s operations and free up management time
Our sell-side services are most useful when there are several potential acquirers interested in the entity being disposed of (e.g., in an auction process).
