Transaction support
Whether you require assistance with assessing the suitability of an acquisition through focused due diligence, would like support with structuring your deal from a tax-efficient perspective or need help with post-merger integration, professionals at RSM member firms can work with you to manage the process from beginning to end.
RSM member firms’ transaction support specialists have diverse industry and professional backgrounds to provide the perfect blend of specific market focus and transaction expertise.
RSM member firms bring together transaction support specialists, as well as professionals from other disciplines, to provide an integrated approach which allows for cost-effective tax structuring alternatives to serves their clients across the entire transaction process.
Their responsiveness, depth of experience and access to other RSM member firm professionals around the world, mean they can offer resources on the ground wherever and whenever they are required. Access to extensive professional resources enables our member firms to take a comprehensive, consultative approach to the multifaceted needs of their clients' transactions. Services cover:
Pre-acquisition due diligence, including:
- Assessing the quality of earnings and cash flow
- Analysing the quality of assets to be purchased and liabilities to be assumed
- Identifying internal control weaknesses
- Identifying transitional issues
- Assisting with post-transaction integration issues
- Reviewing corporate, sales and employment tax positions and identifying areas of risk that may require specific protection in a purchase agreement
Vendor due diligence, including:
- Carve-outs
- Divestitures
- Spin-offs
- Sale planning
- Data room preparation
Financial forecast and working capital reviews, for:
Deal structuring, support and advisory services, including:
- Recommending the optimal deal structure from a tax perspective
- Assisting stakeholders with personal tax concerns
- Recommending financing alternatives and sources
- Pre-closing assistance such as transaction modelling, acquisition and financing agreements and purchase price allocation
- Post closing assistance such as integration planning and operations improvement, human resources and transactions monitoring
- Other deal related advisory services such as closing balance sheet audits, purchase price adjustments and earn-out calculations
Post merger-integration, including:
- Procurement and e-sourcing reviews
- Process review, such as value stream mapping or lean thinking operational reviews
- Change management
- Leading and Developing high performance and other human resources reviews