Our M&A specialists work to maximize value for our clients, through careful management of the process and ensuring complete confidentiality.
We identify strategic targets, whether potential buyers or potential purchase targets, we promote contacts to interest them in the transaction and we manage the different phases of the negotiation process until the operation is carried out.
BDO, through its global network, fully assists you in transaction processes, including sale, merger, acquisition, strategic alliances, MBO, LBO and joint ventures.
With offices all over the world, we always have someone on the ground where the transaction takes place, who works with a global knowledge base but combines it with local market conditions, ensuring an approach and a solution that meets your objectives.
Buying process
- Identification of target companies
We are proactive in identifying target companies, using our local contacts and BDO's international network.
- Approach to target companies
We act by ensuring contact in the appropriate manner and managing the required confidentiality.
- Assessment
We support the attribution of the reference value of the transaction.
- Negotiation support
We suggest the negotiation strategy in the interests of our client.
- Due diligence
Through a team of experts, we carry out due diligence, analyzing the risks in a context of the Company's continuity and change in the shareholder structure.
- Finalization of negotiations
We provide the necessary assistance to finalize negotiations and establish final agreements, as well as structuring the operation.
- Post-Transaction
We support our clients in implementing integration plans and monitoring them.
Sales Process
- Company Profile
Preparation of a brief document outlining the Company's profile, describing the essence of the activity and the reasons for its sale.
- Identify potential buyers
We are proactive in identifying potential buyers, using local contacts and BDO's international network.
- Assessment
We evaluate the business to be sold, which will serve as a reference value for the transaction.
- Preparation of documentation
We support the preparation of information to be provided at the different stages and the definition of agreements to be formalized. It may include a vendor due diligence report and data room organization.
- Contact potential buyers
We manage the process to ensure a balance between the information provided and the interest shown by the potential buyer.
- Negotiation
We support negotiations in order to maximize the sale value and the impact for current shareholders.
- Post-Transaction
We support the implementation of restructuring plans after the sale of part of the business.