Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Advisory

When approaching acquisitions or a sale, companies must carefully evaluate each aspect of the transaction. It’s critically important to have your financial, operational, and strategic assumptions evaluated by an objective third party, who brings an outside perspective honed by years of experience in an array of industry specific deal scenarios. 

Centri’s M&A professionals have the insight and experience to drive significant value for private equity, venture capital, family offices, public companies, family-owned businesses, and other private company’s investors across all phases of the M&A life cycle – from initial strategy, due diligence through execution and integration.

Our experts utilize their vast deal experience to provide a unique value measurement solution enabling our clients to achieve their goals through successful planning and execution of both buy-side and sell-side transactions.

 

 

Centri’s professionals offer a variety of M&A Advisory Services that will provide you with successful strategic planning, and execution, creating transformative value through the transaction life cycle. These include:

• Working with you to determine potential growth opportunities, through the development of an acquisition strategy.
• Helping you evaluate potential merger or acquisition targets based on your growth objectives, providing valuation analysis and deal management solutions in order to optimize purchase price and transaction terms.
• Assessing the benefits and risks of each target through detailed financial analysis, financial due diligence, and forecasting.
• Conducting a thorough evaluation of your chosen target to ensure you get the most out of the transaction.
• Maximizing successful outcomes by developing a go-to-market strategy in preparation for a full or partial liquidity event.
• Optimizing marketability and exit value, accelerating the exit process, and identifying or mitigating risks that could adversely affect the valuation or salability of the business.
• Offering best-in-class Transaction Advisory Services providing Buy-side and Sell-Side Financial Due Diligence to ensure you are well-equipped to close your deal with confidence.

Transaction Advisory Services

Many companies rely on Centri’s objective and comprehensive due diligence to support their buy-side and sell-side activities.  Whether you are a buyer or a seller, our integrated approach delivers a 360-degree perspective of the financial and operational aspects of your deal. Together with a hand-picked team of sector and deals specialists, we cover a comprehensive acquisitions due diligence process that turns questions into answers and data into insights.

Our integrated approach lets us address your needs across the entire transaction process working with your attorneys and other advisors in order to identify and mitigate risks. Centri’s M&A Transaction Advisory Services address complex financial and post-transaction integration issues while completing transactions efficiently, protecting your interests, and instilling confidence in your investment.

Buy-Side Due Diligence Services

• Quality of Earnings Analysis
• Working Capital Assistance
• Identification of Debt and Debt-Like Considerations
• Financial and Operational Analysis
• Identification of Qualitative and Quantitative Key Findings
• Analysis of Free Cash Flow
• HR Human Capital Due Diligence
• Evaluation of Future Expectations and Forecasts
• Purchase Accounting Analysis
• Technical Accounting Research and Guidance

Sell-Side Due Diligence Services

• Quality of Earnings Analysis
• Working Capital Assistance
• Financial and Operational Analysis
• Identification of Qualitative and Quantitative Key Findings (in order to assist in correcting the issue and setting the narrative)
• Carve-Out Assistance
• HR Human Capital Due Diligence

Specialized Acquisition Services

Whether you’re acquiring a new company or being acquired yourself, we’re here to help you anticipate and solve any challenges that come your way. Our skilled team can provide technical accounting assessments and strategic financial analyses, along with comprehensive integration planning.

We’ve prepared countless acquisition accounting memos for our clients in accordance with ASC 805. These memos lay out the necessary steps to take and records to keep to account for your transaction. We also offer post-acquisition and integration assistance to help you seamlessly transition into your new position, whether you’re the acquired company or the parent company.

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