Bridge Consulting Group can advise you on mergers, acquisitions and succession planning. We provide support for defining an acquisition strategy, support for your company's overall succession or sale process or help valuing your company or business division. We can help you on such items as:
- The entire acquisition process
- Defining an acquisition strategy on the basis of your business strategy
- Support for selling your company
- Arrange your company succession
Our Mergers and Acquisitions tax practice can help sellers and buyers of a corporate business in the following tax related issues:
- Determine whether the acquisition should be structured as a taxable or nontaxable transaction
- If non taxable, determine the type of tax-free transaction that should be used to accomplish the parties' individual goals
- If taxable, decide whether the transaction should be structured as a stock or asset acquisition
- Maximize the use of any net operating losses and other tax attributes of the business being acquired
- Identify other consequences that should be addressed in the negotiation process, including where the purchaser and/or seller are members of an affiliated group filing a consolidated return
From candidate approach to acquisition contract An acquisition process requires careful preparation and implementation. On the basis of criteria which result from the business strategy, potential candidates for acquisition are found and approached. Each acquisition candidate is then carefully analyzed and a decision made as to whether an indicative bid will be put forward.
BCG gives advice about structuring a transaction and supports you during negotiations about sale conditions. We help you to finish the acquisition process successfully. Due diligence research and coordinating the concluding of the transaction are part of this process.
- Selecting acquisition candidates
- Acquisition support (negotiating and making deals)
Defining an acquisition strategy on the basis of your business strategy What objectives do you want to achieve from an acquisition? This should be defined on the basis of your business strategy. That is why an acquisition process starts with the integration of the acquisition strategy into the business strategy. On this basis you can determine the financial and other conditions for a transaction, the financing opportunities and the timing for the acquisition process.
BCG Corporate Finance can help you define an acquisition strategy which fits in with your business strategy. In consultation with you we can also define acquisition criteria which are the starting point for approaching potential candidates for acquisition. In the preliminary stage we can provide a mergers-and-acquisitions market analysis, approach candidates and start up the transaction.
Support for selling your company If you decide to sell your company BCG can advise you on the overall process and all the intermediate stages. First we analyse your company. On the basis of this analysis we advise you about the value range of the company and we compose an information package for potential buyers (in the form of an information memorandum). In consultation with you we define the criteria for potential buyers. Then we approach these candidates and conduct exploratory conversations and negotiations. We do all this with the utmost precision on the basis of our extensive experience in sale support.
- Sale support (negotiating and making deals)
- Preparing for sales
- Selecting acquisition candidates
How do I arrange my company succession? Your company is an important part of your life, but one day you decide to give it up. A dozen questions occur to you like: Who will take over my job? What do my children want and are they capable of managing the company? What do I sell? and What is the process? but also, What will my company be worth? Company succession can be one of the most radical events in your life.
The professional and emotional preparation for selling a company is very important and the most important condition in handing it over successfully is planning. You cannot start too early with planning succession. In the process of handing over your company it is very important to have a professional advisor at your side.
BCG's professionals can help you with transactions in the acquisition, sale and finance phases. By combining industry and service knowledge we offer intensive guidance in the succession and acquisition processes and related projects for small and medium-sized enterprises.
The most important aspects of our services are personal attention, technical quality, speed and flexibility. The best way to characterize our role is as process guidance. From start to end we look after your interests in completing every stage of a successful succession or acquisition.