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Stagnation may mean decline. You can implement your growth strategy in different ways, such as stand-alone growth or by committing partnerships and joint ventures. An alternative and frequently applied strategy is to acquire an existing company. This could be an excellent manner to realizing growth strategies in a faster way.
In this context, we do have extensive experience in assisting entrepreneurs, for instance to management buy-in transactions and management buy-out transactions. Match Plan Corporate Finance has the capacity to support you in each step of this very process of business acquisitions.
Below we will set out in steps the standard process of acquiring a company. The complexity of the target company (shares or assets, inclusive or exclusive of premises) and the complexity of negotiations as well as the funding the financials required, of course will influence the content of the deal and the time to complete.
Main goal of a structured acquisition process is to prevent surprises and to obtain optimal acquisition conditions, by meeting the purposes and capacity of the investor and ensure a smooth start after the acquisition.
1. Preparation steps
make sure of investing strategy (purpose and capacity)- make clear the acquisition strategy
- market/sector analysis and acquisition research
- finding target companies
2. Implementation phase
- interviewing target companies
- gathering detailed company information
- financial analysis and valuation
- advising of offering conditions
- drafting offering letter
- entering of negotiations
3. Purchase phase
- drafting a letter of intent/heads of agreements
- obtaining a suitable financing structure
- coordinating the due diligence process
- final negotiations to transaction documentation including the sale and purchase agreement
- closing including formal (share) transfer and payment of purchase price
