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Our Corporate Finance division offers a wide range of services. In light of the increasingly competitive local and international market environment, and the trend of consolidation of core business and divestiture of non-core activities, we believe that our Mergers and Acquisitions activities are one of our key sectors. Our services also includes a highly professional Advisory team
Our Corporate Restructuring division deals with financially troubled middle market companies with an aim to create successful turnaround. The latter is deemed crucial particularly in a period of heightened economic volatility, from changing consumption patterns, globalization, deregulation, and a required higher returns on capital. The division's objectives reside in the following:
- Explore the need for and implications of corporate restructuring
- Develop awareness of flawed financial strategies
- Identify the risks associated with volatile cash flows and escalating leverage.
Our Alliances division provides advisory services to firms in the form of creating different combinations that focus on specific business line so as to reach upon the most potential synergies to all involved parties. Our role extends to different kinds of alliances including the formation of Joint ventures, in which parts of the companies are joined to achieve specific, strategic objectives.
Corporate finance team's mission is to enable companies to set and meet their strategic objectives while at the same time maximizing returns to shareholders. While this is often achieved by alliances, mergers & acquisitions, a divestiture or Spin-off could be a solution.
Our Divestitures & Spin-offs provides advisory services to firms in the form of proposing different divestiture scenarios either in the form of sale of an operating unit to another firm, setting up the business to be divested as a separate corporation and then 'Spinning it off' to the divesting firm's stockholder, or just an outright liquidation of assets.
Our Leveraged Buyouts team provides advisory services to investors acquiring existing firms in a transaction financed largely by debt. In such circumstances, our team prepares all studies pertaining to the potential highly leveraged company with an aim to explore its debt service ability under such an aggressive gearing. Our prominent corporate track record is a cornerstone to the success of this division. MBO is a typical and most common form of LBO, our team's role is to assess management's objective, help set strategic goal and a turn key implementation of the optimum transaction.
In some instances where it is viable to lease assets rather than the traditional acquisition mechanism, our Leasing team casts a critical eye over the leasing alternative taking either the lassor's, or lessee's side to arrive at the Minimum Lease Payment (MLP) that maximize returns to both parties.
Our Merger & Acquisitions team provides advisory services to clients in transactions involving entire companies, divisions, business units or specific assets, on both the sell and buy side. The range of services includes advising on appropriate valuation and negotiating the terms of sale/purchase to the maximum benefit of the client. The services cover advising on acquisitions, sales of public and private companies, strategic divestitures and restructuring programs.
In some cases, some firms are reluctant to an acquisition action, where our team could enlist the different defensive tactics such as changing the bylaws of the company, elaborate to the firm's shareholders that the company is undervalued or even getting a white knight to the target firm's management to compete with the hostile acquirer. Typical defensive alternatives such as poison pill or golden parachutes would be explored as deemed appropriate.
Our advisory team provides a financial advisory services on strategic sales, optimizing capital structures of existing companies, newly established companies and merged entities to derive the maximum return to shareholders. This team also advises on the optimal legal structure in order to ensure a maximization of tax benefits, assists companies in preparing for a rating process, identifies equity opportunities in different companies, advises on the valuation of such investment opportunities as well as negotiates on behalf of our clients for effecting such investments. This team also engages in preparing feasibility studies pertaining to the financial viability of target projects covering payback period to the investor, the internal rate of return of the project and projected return on equity and on capital employed to assist our clients in their investment decisions among others.
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