M&A support
Independent diligence, valuation sense-checks and negotiation support for transactions between £10m and £150m. We sit on your side of the table from diligence through the hundred days that decide whether the deal was wise.
The independent voice in the room
Your corporate financier is paid on completion; your lawyers are paid by the hour. Neither is mandated to ask whether the deal is wise. That gap is where we sit. We coordinate diligence across advisers, read the numbers as an operator would, and give the board an independent view on price, structure and — just as often — walk-away.
For sellers, the same independence applies in reverse: we prepare the equity story, stress it against buyer diligence, and sit beside the chief executive in negotiation when the room gets warm.
- Buy-side diligence coordination for trade and PE acquirers
- Sell-side preparation and negotiation support for founders and family groups
- Independent fairness opinions for subsidiary and associate disposals
After the signature: the hundred days
Deals are won in negotiation and lost in integration. Our hundred-day plan assigns every synergy a named owner and a date, sequences the first two quarters of integration, and reports to the board monthly. Where the plan says stop — a synergy that will not land, a key leaver, a customer defecting — we say so in month one, not year two.
M&A support — what boards ask
If your question is not here, ask it directly — the first conversation is free and candid.
Common questions
Does this replace our corporate financier?
What deal sizes fit your model?
Can you help us prepare the business for a future sale?
Do you provide formal valuation reports?
Bring us the decision, not the brief
The most useful first conversation starts with the decision the board cannot close. We will tell you within the hour whether we are the right firm for it.
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