Transaction Services
- Transactions are key components of today's business world, creating a multitude of opportunities including the enhancement of shareholder value, restoration of organizational solvency, and raising the profile of your organization. From identifying the deal at the outset to helping realize synergy benefits post deal, companies that enhance shareholder value understand that a professional and systematic approach to M&A is essential, however KPMG's researches still demonstrate that same opportunities are being missed.
KPMG's Transaction Services practice provides M&A support throughout a transaction from pre-deal evaluation through to completion and post-deal integration or separation. We help our clients to buy, sell and finance businesses, and have extensive experience in mergers, joint ventures, leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) and Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). We are a leading global team; with over 1,600 transaction professionals, focused on M&A transactions divestitures and financing transactions, KPMG’s global reach provides our clients with support for domestic and cross border transactions and the ability to deal with multinational transactions efficiently. Our clients include private and public companies, private equity houses and the public sector.
Transaction Services – Summary
Pre-deal evaluation - for acquisitions and disposals we can identify key risks and potential deal breakers, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the business against industry benchmarks, and assist with the evaluation of the potential transaction in the context of your existing business.
Bid services - we can assist bidders and targets through the process of both hostile and friendly bids with particular emphasis on investigating the other party without access, identifying value issues, assessing synergies and assisting with the public documents.
Buyer Transaction Services
- Structuring - we are able to assist with the creation of efficient deal structures, with consideration of the taxation, accounting, financing and commercial position.
- Evaluation (due diligence) - we can help assess the key financial, commercial and other issues facing the business and the drivers behind maintainable profits and cash flows. We can provide an investigative analysis of a business, typically including results/projections, tax, cash flows, market analysis, management information, commercial and operational issues, systems and controls, pensions, compensation, benefits, legal issues and environmental matters.
- Modeling - we can build transaction models and also carry out reviews of models.
- Vendor Transaction Services
- Due diligence- at an early stage of the disposal process we can supply an independent analysis and evaluation of the financial, commercial and operational performance of the business.
- Assistance- our divestment services include assisting with evaluating disposal options, carrying out pre-sale reviews and pre-sale due diligence, carve outs, assistance with information memoranda and data rooms, addressing purchaser queries, assisting with obtaining regulatory approvals.
- Assisting with deal finance- we can help you achieve an appropriate funding structure, limit the cost of finance, increase useable free cash flow by providing the credibility of independent due diligence.
Contract assistance - we can support the negotiation of transactions, and provide accounting and other input into sale and purchase agreements, completion accounting and price adjustment mechanisms, and the scope of warranties and indemnities.
Business integration - we can help purchasers identify deal synergies early in the acquisition process- and track and manage them throughout the life cycle of the acquisition. From start to finish, we can help identify integration risks, develop plans to address them, and manage the details of integration.
Stock exchange and regulatory reporting - we are able to review financial information for inclusion in public documents and report publicly, and prepare reports for sponsoring investment banks.
Completion assistance- we can assist with agreeing completion accounts and purchase price adjustments, and if necessary with subsequent warranty or indemnity claims.
Strategic and commercial intelligence – we carry out commercial and operational due diligence combined with customer, supplier and trade interview analysis. We also provide commercial analysis of relationships and operations, and carry out market studies.
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