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CONSULTING - STRATEGY & COUNSEL - M&A AND TRANSACTIONS
BUY, SELL, AND COMBINE — WITH JUDGEMENT.
From first screen to integration — buy-side and sell-side advisory, diligence, valuation, and the post-close work where deals are actually won or lost.
Deals are easy to do and hard to do well. The judgment is the value.
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WHAT IT IS
Most of a deal's value is made or lost away from the headline price — in what diligence uncovers, how the terms are structured, and whether the integration actually delivers. This service brings judgment to the whole arc: buy-side and sell-side, the screen, the diligence, the valuation and structure, and the integration where synergies are real or imaginary.
We start in Consulting because the best transactions begin as strategy — the right target or the right buyer flows from where-to-play, not the other way around. And we finish in execution: when the deal is live, it moves into Capital Services, which handles structuring, sell-side diligence, and closing.
Whether you're acquiring, divesting, or combining, the discipline is the same — understand what the deal really contains, structure terms that hold up, and capture the value after the close rather than assuming it. For family and founder-owned businesses, this connects directly to succession and recapitalisation.
WHAT YOU GET
Engage one or several — most clients start with the sharpest one and expand.
Buy-side & sell-side
The whole transaction advised — from the first screen to the signed deal.
Diligence
What the deal really contains — commercial, operational, and financial.
Valuation & structuring
Terms that hold up — price, structure, and protections that fit.
Integration
Value captured after the close — where synergies become real, not assumed.
Carve-outs & divestitures
Cleanly separating what should be sold — and maximizing what it fetches.
Bridge to Capital
Executed by Capital Services — structuring, sell-side DD, and closing.
How we work with you
Scoped to the outcome, not the hours. Most engagements start with a short readiness conversation, then take one of these shapes.
Build sprint
A fixed-scope build that ships a working system in weeks — not a phased programme that never lands.
Embedded operator
We sit inside your team and run the function until it's self-sustaining, then hand it over.
Readiness program
We get you ready for what's next — a raise, a sale, an AI rollout — and close the gaps first.
Fractional capability
A senior CFO, CMO, CSO, CHRO, or CTO for as long as you need one — full weight, part time.
Principal partnership
Where we believe, we put skin in — capital alongside you, or work for a share of the upside.
PACKAGES
Productized entry points — clear scope, clear outcome.
Target / Buyer Screen
The right targets or buyers, mapped to strategy — not a generic list.
Diligence Sprint
What the deal really contains — fast, focused, and decision-grade.
Integration Plan
The 100-day plan that captures the value the deal promised.
WHERE THIS LANDS
M&A work lands hardest where strategy, value, and risk all ride on one decision.
⬜ Family & Founder-Owned Business
Build - Sales, recapitalisations, and succession deals.
Back - Principal positions in transition and special situations.
🟩 Fintech & Financial Infrastructure
Build - Finance and structure for regulated businesses.
Back - The plumbing — payments, RegTech, infrastructure.
🟪 Manufacturing & Industrials
Build - Capital structure and planning at scale.
Back - Asset-aware positions where collateral lowers risk.
🟫 Technology & SaaS
Build - Buy-and-build and exits for software.
Back - Early-stage software with a path to revenue.
Pairs with —
■ Capital · Transaction execution ■ Capital · Sell-side DD ■ Corporate Finance · Model the deal
■ Strategy · Where to play
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
Both, across two arms. The strategy, screen, and diligence sit in Consulting; the live transaction — structuring, sell-side DD, closing — moves into Capital Services. One team, the whole arc.
Both. We advise acquirers and sellers, and we're equally focused on the part most neglect — the integration or separation where value is actually captured.
A sale, recapitalization, or partial exit is often the value event in a succession. We connect the transaction to the family and governance work so both are handled together.
Because that's where most deals underdeliver. A clean 100-day plan is the difference between modelled synergies and real ones.
Tell us what you're buying, selling, or combining. We'll bring the judgment up front and the execution when it's live.
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