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M&A
Followed end to end, from the first number to the last signature.
Most advisors hand over a valuation and disappear before the hard part. We stay on the mandate until it closes — or until we tell you to walk away.
We work sell-side and buy-side in mobility: manufacturers, suppliers, dealer groups, aftermarket and the funds that back them — and beyond mobility where the method carries. One team, on your side of the table, for the whole process.
What we work on
Buy-side
Thesis, long list, approach, valuation, diligence and negotiation. We run the process so your management team can keep running the business.
Sell-side
Preparing a company to be bought: the equity story, the numbers that will be challenged, and the ones that need fixing before anybody sees them.
Commercial due diligence
For funds and corporates: what the market actually supports, what the plan assumes, and the distance between the two.
Post-merger
The first hundred days, where most of the value that was paid for is either captured or quietly lost.
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The process, end to end
For each deal we convene the specialists it needs — strategy, execution, operations — and set the phases with you. Each one ends with a decision: continue, or stop. On an acquisition it usually takes this shape.
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Thesis
Why this deal, why now, and what it has to be worth to be worth doing. Written down before anything else, because it is the thing the rest of the process tests.
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Origination
Long list, screening, and the first approach. Discreet, and made by someone who knows the sector well enough to be taken seriously.
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Valuation
A range with the reasoning attached: what you would pay, what you would walk away from, and which assumption moves the number most.
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Letter of intent
Price, structure, exclusivity and the conditions that matter. Written to protect the position you will need in month four, not just to get to month two.
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Due diligence
Commercial and operational led by us, coordinated with your financial and legal advisors. We report what breaks the thesis, including when the thesis was ours.
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Negotiation
Price adjustment, warranties, earn-out and the closing conditions. This is where diligence findings turn into money, or fail to.
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Signing and closing
Conditions precedent tracked to completion, with the timetable and the responsible name against every one.
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First hundred days
The integration plan the deal was priced on, turned into owners, dates and a monthly review that survives the excitement wearing off.
When people call us
- An owner has been approached and does not know whether the number is good.
- A buy-side pipeline keeps producing targets that do not survive diligence.
- A deal is signed and the integration plan is still a slide.
What you get
- 01A written thesis, and a gate decision at the end of every phase
- 02The valuation model, with the walk-away number in it
- 03A diligence report that says what is wrong, not what is reassuring
- 04One point of contact from first call to closing
Start a conversation
Tell us what you have to decide
The useful first email is short and specific. A deadline helps more than a brief.
We reply to every email, as quickly as we can.
- 01The decision in front of you, in one sentence
- 02The date it has to be made by
- 03What you have already looked at