MERGERS & ACQUISITION (M&A) ANALYSIS

Accurate business valuation and strategic due diligence are the decisive factors in Mergers & Acquisitions. Valuation modeling and structural analysis directly determine transaction pricing, risk allocation, and post-merger integration success.

Our M&A Practice Group provides comprehensive strategic analysis across small, mid-market, and multinational transactions—including corporate acquisitions, divestitures, fairness opinions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.

Core M&A Advisory Capabilities

• Corporate Acquisitions & Buy-Side Advisory
• Strategic Divestitures & Carve-Outs
• Independent Fairness Analysis & Valuation Opinions
• Joint Ventures (JV) & Cross-Border Strategic Alliances

Our 9-Step M&A Valuation & Due Diligence Methodology

• 1. Identifying Strategic Targets: Screening acquisition or buyer candidates aligned with long-term corporate synergy.
• 2. Target Company Operational Analysis: Auditing business model durability, customer concentration, and supply chain stability.
• 3. Internal System, Culture & Structure Analysis: Evaluating organizational compatibility and post-merger integration risks.
• 4. Marketing & Commercial Performance Analysis: Verifying market share, brand equity, and pipeline sustainability.
• 5. Tangible & Intangible Asset Valuation: Auditing facilities, IP, proprietary technology, and inventory.
• 6. Historical Earnings Valuation: Normalizing past financial statements and EBITDA quality.
• 7. Future Maintainable Earnings Valuation: Stress-testing forward revenue and margin assumptions.
• 8. Relative Valuation: Benchmarking against comparable public companies and precedent M&A transactions.
• 9. 20-Year Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Valuation: Engineering long-term intrinsic enterprise valuation models.

Our M&A team works closely with specialized partner attorneys, CPAs, and industry consultants with deep expertise in capital markets, antitrust/competition, commercial real estate, taxation, employment law, and intellectual property.