Dan James, Wilson Partners
Acquisitions
Acquisitions: Your Shortcut to Growth
As a business owner, you’re the driving force behind your company’s growth. We understand that, and we’re here to help you find the best growth path possible. For many businesses, that path is found through acquisition.
Our Corporate Finance Team is passionate about working with you to identify the perfect strategic target to propel your business forward. However, if you’ve already set your sights on a target, we’re equally ready to step in and make your acquisition go as smoothly as possible.
Engaging with an adviser early on will result in three key benefits. First, it will establish your credibility and demonstrate your intent. Second, it will allow you to gather the kind of valuable information you would struggle to find without professional assistance. And thirdly, it will let you establish how receptive the target business might be to your offer.
At Wilson Partners, our award-winning Corporate Finance team has significant experience spanning the entire acquisition process. This includes:
- Pinpointing the ideal target business
- Engaging and negotiating with the target on your behalf
- Valuing the business and crafting an initial offer
- Raising funds for the acquisition
- Negotiating a Heads of Agreement document
- Tax planning
- Conducting financial and tax due diligence on the target
- Project managing the transaction from inception to completion
Why Wilson Partners?
We’re not just advisers. We’ve been in your shoes. Our Directors have owned businesses, grown them organically and through acquisitions, invested in a variety of different ventures, worked at the highest level in financial institutions, and navigated the legal system. We bring a pragmatic, straight-talking, and commercial approach to the table to help you achieve the best possible outcome. On top of this, we have a long track record of success with acquisitions, and have helped numerous business owners turn their growth dreams into a reality.
Learn more about Wilson Partners Corporate Finance.
FAQs
We work with a wide variety of businesses and business owners. The majority of our clients are SMEs, owner-managers, and entrepreneurs, many of whom have never previously acquired a business.
A buy-side advisor helps businesses including private equity investors looking to make an acquisition search for and identify potential strategic targets that line up with their acquisition strategy. In every case, the ultimate goal is to buy the target company at the best price and get a successful deal.
A buy-side advisor works to reduce any competitive tension, put in place exclusivity agreements as soon as possible, and optimise the offer structure to minimise risk to their clients. This could involve the use of earnouts and deferred consideration. In the case of Wilson Partners, due to the integrated nature of our teams and their specialities, we also provide valuable assistance with tax and financial due diligence.
Having a third party to handle negotiations can help avoid the risk of emotional investment getting in the way, by providing a pragmatic approach that ensures both sides are aligned, providing a buffer between the seller and the buyer, especially important if they’re going to have to work together post-deal.
Generally, larger businesses attract a higher multiple because they have the infrastructure and professionalisation that de-risks the business to a greater extent than smaller, owner-managed businesses that are still on a journey of growth and development although small niche businesses with a unique proposition can attract higher than average values.
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