Corporate Finance

Providing clients with commercially minded experts who can provide advice and insight at every stage of a transaction, no matter how complex through to completion. Whether buying or selling we have the strength and resources of a global network, and our team puts clients’ ambitions at the centre of everything they do to ensure the end result is always kept in sight.

MHA act for businesses that range from family-owned business, SME’s to multinational listed companies. Our award-winning corporate finance specialists are highly driven to maximise the value of the deal for our clients. We are one of the UK’s most active M&A teams by deal volume for transactions in the lower mid-market and mid-market delivering deals up to £100m in value.

M&A Advisory

M&A transactions present an opportunity to realise, preserve, or accelerate growth of a shareholder value, as well as to embed operational growth and transformation. As an experienced and passionate M&A team, we provide a range of core and specialist services including:

• Disposals: selling your business
• Acquisitions
• M&A strategic advisory and exit planning
• Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) structuring and implementation
• Share purchase agreement (SPA) completion mechanism negotiation and advisory
• Carve-out divestitures

Our M&A advisory team takes a partnership-based approach and strives to apply a bold and creative mindset to working with and supporting our clients. We apply analytical rigour to deliver consummately professional strategic, financial, and commercial advice on M&A deals.

Transaction Services

Acquiring or investing in companies always involves information asymmetry and risk. Objective due diligence has a strong role to play in facilitating a buyer or investor to identify, manage, and mitigate risk as well as to help validate strategic, financial, operational, and broader commercial assumptions.

Our team provide succinct and informative reports which are underpinned by comprehensive analysis and commercial recommendations on how risk can be mitigated and managed in a transactional context.

We cover:

• Financial due diligence
• Tax due diligence
• Valuations
• Cross-border transactions
• Vendor due diligence and vendor assistance
• Completion accounts
• Financial model building and model reviews
• Post-deal planning

Capital Markets & Financial Advisory Services

Our dedicated capital markets team has considerable experience working with companies already listed, or considering a flotation, on a range of international markets including the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Premium and Standard), the AIM Market, AQUIS, TISE, NASDAQ & OTC, ASX, SGX, HKEK, Bursa Malaysia, TSX and TSX-V.

For those already listed on a capital market, we provide assurance and advisory services within independence rules and guidance. For companies considering an IPO, our Capital Markets team regularly provides independent and objective advice on the options and alternatives available and offer investor-ready services to help clients best prepare for market admission and act as reporting accountants on the transaction.

Services include:

Reporting accountants – full range of services to support the IPO

• Investor-ready review
• External and internal audit
• Financial reporting advisory
• Tax compliance and advisory
• Sustainability advisory
• Regulatory consulting
• Forensic services

Management Advisory

Our team can help you to structure, negotiate commercial and financial terms, and deliver management buy-outs, management buy-ins and combination buy-in management buy-outs. We can also introduce an equity partner and negotiate funding terms to deliver a management-led transaction, as well as raise debt as an exclusive source of funding, or alongside equity to deliver a management-led transaction.

Raising Capital

In a fast-moving and unpredictable economic climate, raising finance can be a challenge for businesses, whatever their priorities. Our team have an extensive network of contacts across private equity and debt finance to help you find the right solution and partner for your business.

We have the expertise and insight to help clients reach the next stage of their growth. We will guide you through this complex market, whatever the size or structure of your business and whatever your finance needs.

Our team can help you to:

• Raise equity through our network of venture capital trust, private equity and family office contacts to introduce primary capital to fund growth, or secondary capital for full and partial equity release
• Raise debt to fund
• Venture debt advisory

Valuations

Specialist independent valuations and opinions our crucial to help a business take the right next step. Our team of valuation experts provide skilled analysis and expert opinion for either buying or selling a business.

Our valuations services cover:

• Control
• Minority
• EMI option valuations
• Growth shares
• Court appointed & joint single expert
• Shareholder disputes
• Probate
• Purchase price allocation