What makes deals successful?
-Is it the experience of the team?
-Is it asking the right questions?
-Is it knowing what to look for?
The answer is all of the above...
delivered by The Absum Group.
Large or small, simple or complex — we bring commercial knowledge, industry insight and robust analytical skills to every project. Our team of professionals combines extensive industry and transaction experience with deep technical and accounting knowledge across disciplines and industry sectors. We help corporate buyers and private equity investors with every step of the deal. TAG’s expertise helps our clients manage risk.
We can support you — whether you are on the buy or sell side — with services that encompass the full life cycle of a transaction. Helping to identify targets, evaluate potential acquisitions, integrate similar or disparate acquired operations, develop restructuring plans, provide IPO advice and guidance, and even dispose of non-core assets.
Buy-Side M&A
The current economic environment has created lucrative opportunities for private equity, as well as publicly and privately held companies, to take advantage of the deal market. Timing is critical, that is why TAG quickly navigates through the target’s data in an effort to normalize the historical results while highlighting the value drivers, risks, and opportunities in the deal.
Properly determining if an acquisition will create shareholder value depends on the thoroughness and quality of due diligence. Most executives go into an M&A deal confident it will be successful; history tells a different story. About half of acquisitions, mergers and divestitures diminish — rather than build — shareholder value. TAG’s team of professionals performs comprehensive financial due diligence procedures, and goes beyond traditional accounting and financial analysis to assess the key assumptions underlying the deal. TAG’s approach will provide confidence in the decisions made.
Sell-Side M&A
For motivated sellers, we perform full service sell-side procedures, including due diligence reviews, data room management, and drafting of pitch books — all to help maximize the asking price. Additionally, through our wide network of M&A advisors, we routinely facilitate introductions between buyers and sellers.
From beginning to end, we align our services to address your transactional and integration needs, all with the goal of building value for you — our client.
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Diligence Objectives
-Gain a deeper understanding of the total performance of the target business
-Assess the quality of earnings, including identifying adjustments to historically reported results
-Evaluate the quality of the assets being acquired and liabilities being assumed
-Identify and assess business and operational related risks
-Identify favorable working capital and purchase price mechanisms
… and much more
Services Offered
-Financial and business buy and sell-side due diligence
-Merger integration
-Business carve-out support
-Aligning deals with strategic business objectives
-Financing, refinancing, and restructuring
-Extracting value from business integration and realizing synergies
-Analyzing SEC implications and reporting requirements
-Assisting in developing accounting position papers and accounting for the transaction
... and much more