Mergers and acquisitions are both aspects of strategic management, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or new location, without creating a subsidiary, other child entity or using a joint venture. Mergers and acquisitions activity can be defined as a type of restructuring in that they result in some entity reorganization with the aim to provide growth or positive value.

From a legal point of view, a merger is a legal consolidation of two companies into one entity, whereas an acquisition occurs when one company takes over another and completely establishes itself as the new owner (in which case the target company still exists as an independent legal entity controlled by the acquirer). Either structure can result in the economic and financial consolidation of the two entities.

Our Merger and Acquisition services include advice on the full range of strategic transactions, including mergers, sell-side and buy-side, leveraged buy-outs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, demergers, slump sales and other restructurings such as management buy-in, management buy-outs, slump sale and privatization.

We provide end to end M & A services where we analyze your requirement , have brain storming ideation sessions with you , value your or target company , indentify sellers / buyers , assist in documentation , assist in due diligence and help in negotiations.

Valuation is the knowledge of how much your business or a component of your business or a particular transaction of business is worth. Our valuation services include:

• Business, Equity and other securities valuation
• Valuation of Immovable Property
• Valuation of Movable Property
• Valuation of Intangibles
• Valuation for technology transfer
• Valuation for Income tax and Goods & Service tax (GST)
• Valuation for the purposes of Customs and Transfer Pricing regulations
• Valuation for Insolvency
• Valuation for M & A, Internal Negotiations, Joint Ventures and for sell side and buy side transactions

Financial Due diligence can be an investigation of a business or person prior to signing a contract or it can be a legal obligation.

You need to carry out Financial due diligence of your target entity to evaluate it or its assets for an acquisition. Financial Due diligence is a type of investigation which contributes significantly to informed decision making by enhancing the amount and quality of information available to decision makers and by ensuring that this information is systematically used to deliberate in a reflexive manner on the decision at hand and all its costs, benefits, and risks.

Our Financial due diligence process can be your integrated, one-stop solution to help you examine the fine print and uncover all of the detailed answers to the complex questions you have about your merger or acquisition.

Tax is an important cost and risk in case of any M & A or any restructuring transaction. Our tax due diligence services are catered towards identification of such risk involved in transactions and timely informing the stake holder , so any associated cost of such tax can be taken in to account during the valuation of the deal and subsequent negotiations.

We provide Income tax due diligence services and indirect tax (GST, VAT, Excise and Customs) due diligence services to support any M & A or any restructuring transaction.

Legal due diligence is an important process to carry out in any M & A transaction. It involves the process of understanding and analysis of all legal risks associated in a proposed transaction. Our During due diligence services helps the buyer or seller to review all the legal documents in relation to proposed transaction, our services also involves identifying legal risks and costs associated with them. We also interviews people as a part of our legal due diligence process.

We provide legal due diligence services for all economic and fiscal laws such as companies act, tax laws, employment and labor laws, industrial and factory regulations, technology related laws and agreement specific conditions and other applicable laws to a entity under transaction.

In case you have licensed your technology or your brand or any copyright or any intangibles to any entity in India, we can provide royalty or licence fee verification services for verification of the same. Our services include understanding your royalty trigger as per the agreed terms and extensive verification of various variables involved in computation of royalty in order to provide royalty assurance to the intangible owner.

The need for fixed asset verification and assurance arises in case you are going for any M & A transaction, undergoing Financial due diligence process or is requirement of government or any requirement of auditor or is a requirement of any re-structuring (internal or external).

We provide fixed asset verification, compilation, valuation and assurance services suitable to client’s need. We also help in automation of your fixed asset register.