M & A Advisory
- We are experts in selling private companies via international and domestic trade sale processes
- We assist founders and private equity funds in achieving successful and timely exits
- We assist large corporations in the identification and divestment of non-core businesses to industrial or financial partners
- We identify the most suitable private equity funds according to selected investment criteria
- We participate in the financial structuring and negotiation of the deal
- We advise management teams and equity investors, focusing in particular on issues related to governance, shareholders’ agreements, and management packages
- We review and assess corporate strategy and help define acquisition criteria
- We screen, analyze and approach potential international and/ or domestic targets (on an anonymous or open basis)
- We assist with valuation and in negotiations through to closing
Fund raising
- We prepare and draft supporting documents (business plan, executive summary, Equity story etc.)
- We assist in private placement execution (select candidates, investment approach and rationale, roadshows, etc.)
- We assist you through the complete fund-raising process (pre/post-money valuation, investment structure, term sheet, shareholders’ agreement, management package, ratchet clauses, etc…)
- We identify and select appropriate Private Equity backers according to their investment criteria
- We leverage DDA’s extensive network of Private Equity contacts built up over 20 years of industry practice
- We optimize capital structure to minimize dilution and optimize the incentive package
- We provide financial structuring advice to optimize transaction leverage
- We identify and select potential debt providers (banks and/or mezzanine lenders)
- We assist in negotiating financing terms
Corporate finance advisory
- We provide independent valuation services using a multi-method approach
- We identify and model value drivers
- We conduct sensitivity analyses
- We provide independent valuation opinions (including for internal transfers within an investor’s fund portfolio)
- We analyze business plan assumptions and sensitivities
- We benchmark assumptions to market and competitor practice
- We verify the consistency of business plan assumptions
- We advise on group business portfolio optimization.
- We advise on financial and ownership strategy.