The Focus Team specifically focuses on the corporate, tax and accounting levers of merger and acquisition transactions and can provide professional assistance to buyers or sellers. Experience in Extraordinary Transactions, especially alongside medium-sized companies, allows for a pragmatic approach towards legal and tax issues, alongside corporate finance activities, often organised by specific banks or consultants.
The Firm can offer advice or set up vehicles to optimise the investment process, to overseeing the corporate and tax side of leveraged buy out transactions.
In assisting sellers, advice is offered on the appropriate organisation of assets, often corporate, or participation, so as to allow for a fast and effective assessment process – vendor due diligence. Thanks to our network of partners and correspondents, and our ongoing relationships with private equity funds and investment banks, we are able to manage tax, legal and financial due diligence.
In providing assistance to buyers, we support the scouting activity alongside the structuring of the transaction, also at an international level.
Examples of our case histories:
- A leading company in its sector decides to grow through the procurement of some suppliers and distributors, even in different countries. The activity, together with management consultants, leads the Firm to design entry strategies that can optimise, both legally and fiscally, the return on investment in a framework of full compliance.
- An entrepreneur has no generational continuity within a group to which he has dedicated the last 30 years. He decides, therefore, to consult us in order to redesign his investment group, also in the interest of his children, whilst, at the same time, facilitating the launch of a competitive auction that will allow him to sell the group in the best possible way (not only at the highest price), with all the corporate attention that this entails.
- Some Italian and international investors ask us to study and implement a legal structure, in tax compliance, in order to organise the collection of financial commitments to carry out an acquisition (“Club Deal”). Afterwards, they involve us in the consultancy associated with the financial leveraged buy out that they structure with a few banks and the help of a consulting firm expert in corporate finance through which they have identified the “target”.
