Financial due diligence focuses in particular on analysing historical assets, financial position and earnings considering industry risks and characteristics, and validating planning calculations.
Tax aspects are an important factor when deciding to buy or sell businesses or parts thereof. We analyse and evaluate tax risks and chances at an early stage with due care and with necessary strategic foresight considering tax implications in our recommendations.
The analyses are used to provide transparency and derive recommendations for action considering risks and opportunities.
Your key benefits:
Independent, unbiased valuation of the transaction
Maximise the transaction value
Understand and quantify opportunities and risks
Develop an optimal transaction structure
Support in financially relevant parts of the purchase agreement
Financial and tax fact book
Financial and tax fact books have become market standard.
In our financial and tax fact books we present relevant financial and tax aspects in sufficient detail, transparency and structure enabling potential buyers to make informed and efficient decisions.
Your key benefits:
Facilitate of the sales process through structured preparation
Build trust through transparent and detailed information
Early identification of potential risks
Prepare for a smooth execution of the company sale
Take pressure from your employees during preparation and due diligence phase
Vendor Due Diligence
In a vendor due diligence, we conduct an independent analysis of the opportunities and risks of your business to be sold, building trust in financial information preparing an efficient sales process.
Your key benefits:
Independent analysis and validation of opportunities and risks
Building trust in data quality
Reducing the risk of price reductions in the transaction
Exercise control over the sales process and highly confidential data
Reducing time required for buyer’s due diligence
Minimise of disruption to business operations
Accelerate sales process
Tax structuring
Tax structuring is crucial in most M&A transactions not only substantially impacting the legal form of the transaction, but more so the tax benefits or downsides for our clients.
Our advice on tax structuring for acquisitions includes in particular:
Avoid or minimise transaction-related taxes
Analyse tax implications from the allocation of the purchase price
Optimise integration of the acquired business into the acquirer’s group
Consider acquisition structure in preparing tax returns
In international cases, we also provide support in structuring and documentation of transfer prices following an acquisition.
Contract assistance
Advice on financial and tax issues relating to the purchase agreement is an integral part of our services.
The results and risk areas identified in the due diligence phase are seamlessly incorporated into the contractual arrangements. In addition to lawyers, our team provides support in negotiating and drafting of share or asset purchase agreements.
