Marcel Jans
Head of Corporate Finance Switzerland, Partner
Adding value at every stage of your transaction process
Are you planning to buy or sell a company? Our experts support you throughout the decision-making process and beyond as you plan and execute your transaction. We work closely with our clients and cultivate a culture of regular and open communication.
We assess the financial, tax and legal situation of potential targets for you throughout Switzerland and in over 160 countries around the world. Our clients include:
- Strategic investors
- Private equity and other financial investors
- Private investors
- Banks and other financial institutions
- Entrepreneurs, private and institutional owners
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Buy-Side services
Are you looking to invest in a company? Do you need a skilled partner to support you with advisory, financial, tax or legal services? We tailor our work to your needs – so you can rely on a sound decision-making basis for your planned transaction.
We help create value throughout your buy-side transaction by considering aspects such as:
- Quality of earnings
- Normalisation of EDITDA/EBIT and modelling of long-term operating performance and profitability
- Review and assessing the potential of management forecasts
- Impairment testing of assets and completeness testing of liabilities
- Identification of debt and debt-like positions
- Normalisation of net working capital
- Locked-box mechanisms or closing accounts
- Identification and wording of representations and warranties as well as indemnifications
Key buy-side services include:
- Comprehensive financial, tax or legal due diligence
- Red flag due diligence in specific financial, tax or legal areas
- Review of vendor due diligence or vendor assistance reports
- Reviews with restricted data access
Sell-Side services
We support you in carrying out vendor due diligence or vendor assistance and prepare a comprehensive report on the company you are selling.
Our vendor due diligence and vendor assistance reports are designed to provide potential buyers with an informative and comprehensive overview of the financial and tax situation of the company, supporting their decision making with sound and objective facts.
For you, the benefits of vendor due diligence or vendor assistance include:
- Objective, transparent and verifiable presentation of the target's financial position
- Early identification of value drivers and impairments
- Reduced transaction effort for target’s management and other parties involved in the transaction
- Higher investor engagement
- Targeted management of the sales process, including timing
- Sound basis for an initial bid
- Controlled release of sensitive business information at all times (especially relevant in case of bidding competition)
