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M&A and Growth Capital

As specialists in M&A transaction advisory, we provide buy-side as well as sell-side advisory. We also assist our clients in raising private equity/ venture capital funding to expand, enter new markets or finance a significant acquisition with or without a change in control.

Our services

  1. Sell-side advisory: we help you sell your business
  2. Buy-side advisory: we help you identify businesses to acquire
  3. PE or VC funding: private equity or venture capital finance to fund your growth plans
  4. Inbound JV partner search: finding global companies looking at tying up with Indian companies for joint venture partnership
  5. Outbound JV partner search: finding global JV opportunities for Indian companies to enter new geographies

What we do

  1. Create marketing collaterals
  2. Prepare buyer’s list
  3. Reach out to potential investors: both strategic and financial
  4. Value discussion and term sheet
  5. Assist in Closing

Our approach

  1. Reaching out to known and unknown buyers: There are possibly hundreds, sometimes thousands of possible companies/investors who may be interested in doing an M&A deal or interested in a private equity fund-raise for our client.
  2. Sector agnostic: Sector-experience is important for dealmakers working on billion-dollar deals as in those cases, there are a handful of buyers/ investors looking at deals that size and therefore, relationship and sector focus is key for such large transactions – for a mid-size business, we focus on our process of approaching multiple buyers and therefore we remain sector agnostic.
  3. Leveraging technology: We don’t rely merely on our already wide network of known players; we use a lot of technology databases, deal analytics, news alerts, to see that we reach out to as many buyers/sellers as possible for our client.
  4. Advantage of contacting multiple buyers: We can’t be in every buyer’s or investor’s mind and for a mid-size business to sell or looking for a fund-raise, a buyer or an investor or a JV partner can come from anywhere. What we do is reach out to as many as possible with an objective of getting multiple options for our clients, helping them get a better value for the business.