Special Situations Mergers & Acquisitions (‘M&A’)

Special Situations M&A

The Special Situations Mergers & Acquisitions (‘M&A’) team supports sellers and buyers of businesses that are facing financial stress or distress.

Our team operates across the U.K. and globally, with a strong track record of delivering rapid deal solutions through both solvent and insolvent sales / fundraising processes. We work for companies and their owners, boards of directors and other key stakeholders to efficiently and rapidly assess and provide corporate finance options.

We often work in challenging and highly charged situations, where time is of the essence and information is imperfect.

We have well-established relationships and deep knowledge of the international special situations investor community, in addition to a network of high net worth investors and combine this with access to mainstream private equity and trade buyers to bring the best mix of potential parties to the table to fund a transaction.

Our range of services includes:

	Accelerated M&A Rapid sales process delivered typically over 4 - 12 weeks.
	Corporate finance options Quick assessment of the debt / equity / facility extension / other options available to a company, its owners and other key stakeholders.
	Accelerated fundraising Raising debt and/or equity in a limited timeframe.
	Non-core disposal or carve out Sale of a non-core, often underperforming business to deliver value and release funds to the corporate seller.
	Distressed acquisition support Advising buyers and investors in the acquisition of stressed assets, often including where the sale will be executed through an insolvency process.