“Our M&A services are designed to support your Company’s growth strategy by pro-actively managing your acquisition program within predetermined terms of reference”
Kerburn Rose Merger and Acquisitions service is designed to support your Company’s growth strategy by pro-actively managing your acquisition program within pre-determined terms of reference.
Our M & A service is a simple out-sourced arrangement where our clients remain “in control” at all times.
By delegating their Acquisition program to Kerburn Rose our clients ensure that this matter stays at the top of their management agenda without increasing the commercial risk of their existing business.
Sell-side Advisory: Leveraging our independence and lack of conflicts, we operate for target companies or selling shareholders, assist in negotiations and give impartial and objective advice about the merits of bids received.
Buy-side Advisory: Kerburn Rose has a strong track record of successful buy side advisory assignments in relation to public or private target companies and is able to advise interested buyers on attractive targets through our global network of relationships.
Cross-border Advisory: Kerburn Rose’s network of international offices in the UK, US and the EU allow us to offer clients a seamless cross-border advisory service with a truly global perspective.
Our role further includes:
- Assisting to define the acquisition criteria
- Acquisition search
- Approach analysis
- Preliminary due diligence
- Valuation
- Negotiations as an intermediary
- Documenting the principle commercial terms
- Assisting in the fund raising
- Project managing the detailed due diligence
- Project managing the deal execution
Examples of Transactions
- Kerburn Rose advised Chrysalis VCT plc on the merger of four Venture Capital Trusts resulting in the first ever merger of this kind. Our work involved Kerburn Rose taking the initiative to ensure that the proper tax legislation was bought into effect to facilitate such a transaction.
- Kerburn Rose advised Creston plc, then a fully quoted cash shell, on its acquisition of Marketing Services Limited a Winchester based market research company, starting Creston on its journey of becoming a highly successful marketing services company.
- Kerburn Rose advised Addison Consultancy Group PLC, which then just comprised the market research business of Taylor Nelson, on the acquisition of AGB Research PLC thus starting what is now known as Taylor Nelson Sofres PLC on its acquisition journey and the formation of the world’s foremost market research company.