"Mergers & Acquisitions"
The global trend is for utility businesses to transform itself through a process of semi-privatisation or full privatisation. It often makes sense to merge one or more central, regional or local organisations into an existing or new entity. It frequently involves a process of Mergers and Acquisitions. This is where Agulhas is able to provide concrete advice in the following areas, supported by a thorough financial analysis of all the relevant businesses units that are involved:
- Strategic & Financial Analysis
- Asset Valuation
- Market Testing
- Collation & Analysis of Offers
- Due Diligence Investigations
- Sale Completion & Settlement
Financial Advice
Thorough financial analysis is an essential component of maximising owners' value. We are able to give advice in the following areas:
- NPV, IRR and EVA Analysis
- Cash-flow Forecasting
- Analysis of Financial Statements
- "What if" Analysis
- Capital Investment Analysis
- Share Price Assessment
Due Diligence
Due diligence is a form of research conducted by investors or prospective joint venture partners to make certain they're are getting exactly what they agreed to buy. Trust the information you receive from the prospective partner, but it's good business practice to verify the facts through interviews with third parties.
Due diligence emphasizes understanding and quantifying the risk of the proposed deal, rather than the upside.
- Track record of the management team
- Size and growth potential of the market
- Demand for the product among target customers
- Ability to deliver the product on time and at agreed price
- Competitive advantage of the product
- Competitors Marketing and Distribution plans
- Soundness of financial projections
- Assessment of assumptions used
- Assessment of intellectual property rights, if any
- Existing or possible legal contingences