Adding value to the deal continuum

Our strategic business structuring approach ensures our clients’ business; equity and finance structures are aligned to their strategic goals.

Acquisitions and disposals: Deal origination, structuring, negotiation assistance and completion, BEE transactions and exit strategies
Debt advisory services, i.e. assistance with debt restructuring, refinancing, re-negotiation of debt terms.
Enabling access to capital markets and management buy-outs, e.g. assistance with JSE listings
Infrastructure and public sector advisory services.

Deal opportunity identification and initiation
Buy and sell mandates for businesses
Transaction structuring, including financial, tax and fundraising considerations
Lead advisory work, deal negotiation assistance
Project management of the deal process
Advice on BEE ownership strategy and partner selection.

Our transaction services help our clients maximise deal returns and manage transaction-related risk.

By complimenting our financial due diligence expertise with the services of human capital, information technology, and tax due diligence specialists from across the firm. We offer our services to corporate and financial buyers and sellers, including medium and large businesses, and private equity and debt providers.

We also offer all forms of specialist valuations required for business purposes, including:

Transaction valuations – business valuations supporting acquisitions, disposals, intangible assets, BEE transactions and restructurings
Fairness opinions – independent valuation opinions in terms of the JSE Listings Requirements or Securities Regulation Code on takeovers and mergers
Expert valuation opinions – valuation of shares or businesses in terms of articles of association, shareholder agreements or share scheme rules
Tax valuations – income tax and exchange control valuations
Financial reporting valuations – the complex fair value concepts of IFRS require:
- Purchase price allocations – assisting clients with the identification and valuation of intangible assets as part of the IFRS3 purchase price allocation process for business combinations
- Impairment testing – IAS 36 asset impairment testing
- Audit assistance – assisting our audit teams’ reviews of purchase price allocations, intangible asset valuations and impairment tests
- IFRS2 share-based payment valuations