Selling a business
Many parameters have to match when selling a business. The main focus is to get the right valuation, but to make it a truly successful deal you must feel comfortable and confident with prospective buyers and their future plans for your company. At AHL Partners, we identify, contact and negotiate with investors that understands your business and share the same values.
It is essential to hire professional advisors when selling a business. AHL Partners run structured and competitive processes generating comparable bids from different potential buyers. We have an ongoing dialogue and keep you informed in every step, and we manage the whole process, which allows you to stay focused on business development and ongoing operations.
Managing a transaction from start to finish involves an initial corporate analysis and valuation, preparation of Information Memorandum (IM), identification of potential buyers, company presentations, day-to-day dialogues, managing bids and negotiate Letter of Intent (LOI) and Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) as well as setting up and managing data room for the buyers’ due diligences.
Buying a business
When acquiring a company it is most often a value-creating transaction. It may generate increased growth, cost synergies, geographical expansion or other strategic values. We offer you professional guidance through the whole acquisition process; valuation, negotiation and closing.
We provide tailor-made advice and support according to your specific needs and the unique deal-situation. We may manage the full process or we can do parts of the process such as valuation, financial due diligence, analysis and execution of purchase price definition in share transfer agreement and negotiation support.
Strategic buy-side advice for financial investors
Our highly dedicated corporate finance team with a profound experience is your perfect partner when seeking to make strategic acquisitions. We have a long history of negotiating small- and mid-sized entrepreneurial businesses.
From initial analysis and company search, establishing contact with owners, introducing business opportunities, meeting arrangements, indicative corporate valuation of targets, communication of indicative bids, negotiation support in connection with letter of intent (LOI) and share purchase agreement (SPA), to assisting with data room and coordination of due diligence.
Business valuation
Do you need an external valuation of your company or company assets? No matter the reason, we may offer you a fair business valuation based on well-established valuation methodology. However, since every business and situation have unique conditions, the most crucial factors to be able to arrive at a fair value are our deep knowledge and experience from the transaction market.