Valuations
We perform a wide range of Independent valuations for businesses to enable transactions, assist in decision making and support your accounting function.
We are particularly skilled in valuing B-BBEE deals which can sometimes be complex.
Building Wealth Through Corporate Finance and Financial Modelling Solutions
Sell Side M&A Advisory Services
Our aim is to sell your business as quickly and at the best price possible whilst managing the risk that such a sale can expose your business to.
To successfully sell your business requires a marketing approach, balanced with a factual based assessment of your business and a process aimed at getting as many buyers as possible, as quickly as possible but at the same time managing the confidentiality of your business to ensure your business is not unnecessarily exposed.
- Determine what makes your business special
- Package your business for sale – from the high-level teaser through to the detailed Information Memorandum. The marketing documents are designed in a way that we can engage with potential buyers to determine their interest before giving away too much information
Identify the right type of buyers - Prepare a list of potential buyers for your review
- Approach approved buyers on a confidential basis and assess their desire and ability to buy your business
- Negotiate the high-level terms of deal
- Provide and build Virtual Data room
- Project manage the Due Diligence and governance surrounding the approvals for sale
- Lead or support detailed contract drafting and negotiations
- Attend closing meetings and ensure all deal documentation finalised
Exit Planning
Our aim is to prepare you and your business for a premium exit. Often your business may not be ready for sale. Agilequity differentiates itself on the sell side M&A advisory service side by adding the Exit planning step into the process of selling where required.
This proprietary process is aimed at assessing how ready your business is for sale and then providing an action plan for closing the gap, if there is a gap.
The beauty of this process is that the actions we will identify to make your business more saleable are often the same actions that are required to optimise your business’ cash flow.
- Understand your business and your goals
- Identify issues that can reduce the desirability of your business
- Build a financial model using the key drivers that determine your business value. The model is built in a way that allows you to change these key drivers to determine the impact on the value of the business
Value the business - Determine potential cash out and match to your goals
- Document an action plan with timelines for getting your business ready for an optimum sale
- Support you make your “keep” or “sell“ decision
Debt and Equity Raising
Raising debt always start with a full analysis of the commercial aspects, and cash flow, of your business or the transaction.
We understand what our network of funders are looking for and apply this knowledge to your benefit. An area we specialise in is raising blended funding, a mix of development and commercial funding (debt and equity) for our clients who qualify.Raising debt always start with a full analysis of the commercial aspects, and cash flow, of your business or the transaction.
B-BBEE Ownership Solutions
We have an intimate knowledge of the B-BEE ownership code and have put together a number of innovative ownership deals which maximize ownership points.
Financial Modelling
We build robust financial models to support your fund raising, acquisitions, mergers and operational decision making amongst others. We also conduct independent technical reviews of models you have built.
Our approach to modelling is to make the models simple enough to understand, but detailed enough to forecast the reality of your business or project.
We follow good modelling practices to reduce the likelihood of error and to make it easy for others to understand and work with the model themselves. We can do the full model build ourselves, provide resources to build under your instruction or guide your resources to build the model.
Buy Side M&A Advisory Services
Our aim is to help your business grow aggressively using agile repeatable M&A to acquire businesses that will create optimum value for you.
We use a simple methodology which starts with
- Understand your strategy for competing
- Help your team develop an appropriate acquisitive growth strategy
- Identify ideal characteristics of potential target based on strategy
- Research and find as many potential targets that fit your criteria in as short a time as possible
- Approach targets on a confidential basis to determine their fit and desire to sell
- Value the target
- Lead or support your team in reaching high level deal terms
Project manage the due diligence and your governance approach for approving the acquisition - Lead or support detailed contract drafting and negotiations
- Attend closing meetings and ensure all deal documentation finalised