Due Diligence & Acquisition support

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Due Diligence and Acquisition support

Our award-winning financial due diligence team is recognised for producing clear, astute and genuinely useful analysis, commentary and advice. Whether you are a private equity fund or a trade buyer, our dedicated DD team is refreshingly commercial.

financial due diligence

Our Financial Due Diligence Team is a proven and trusted adviser to many of the UK’s mid-market private equity and debt funds. Working quickly and effectively the team supports multiple transaction types across a wide range of sectors.

As a highly experienced team, we use our collective analytical and commercial acumen and experience to add value to each and every client assignment. As well as focussing on risk mitigation and identifying areas of concern and potential concern in transactions, our approach is to offer practical advice and solutions to enable our clients to progress their deals effectively.

We maintain a regular dialogue with our clients throughout the course of our financial due diligence investigations so that any issues are raised and debated early on. Our conclusions and resultant recommendations are clear, commercially oriented and unequivocal.

We also apply our experience and expertise to produce Vendor Due Diligence for those who are planning to sell their business or raise investment. Vendor due diligence provides early insight into areas which are likely to be of concern to a buyer, providing the opportunity to address them before entering a business sale process. Equally, a full financial vendor due diligence report gives interested parties comfort regarding the financials of a target, allowing the granting of exclusivity to be deferred. In this way it can offer a greater measure of control over the process itself.

Financial Modelling

An intelligently constructed, integrated financial model which can be used to model various scenarios and to test outcomes, is a key element of most transactional processes. Our Transaction Support Team offers specialist financial modelling capabilities either as part of a full-service offering, alongside our M&A Advisory services or as a stand-alone service.

Our Team’s deep understanding of what is required of a transactional model and how it will be used during the process by a variety of parties, means that we can quickly and efficiently build or evolve financial models to make them fit for purpose.

As with all our services, our financial models are built on a bespoke basis to reflect the dynamics of our clients’ individual businesses and they therefore fully reflect the specific financial characteristics of each company we work with.

HMT have once again been a trusted partner throughout this process. Working very closely with our senior team they have been with us at every stage. Not only to identify the right strategic fit from the start but then work carefully as an extension of our finance and leadership team through all aspects of the process. They have invested a great deal of additional time in understanding both our needs, the needs of our investors and lenders, and that of the sellers, to help shape a successful outcome

Simon Hambley

Founder and CEO of Strata

This acquisition marks a significant step forward in Optimised’s growth strategy. HMT’s expert guidance and support helped us complete a deal that strengthens our service offering and positions us for long-term success

Jasvir Sanghera

Chief Financial Officer

This deal represents a key milestone for Ego as we continue to develop the businesses offering. The acquisition is a strategic move to strengthen EGO’s position in IT asset disposal solutions and by integrating Ucan’s recycling and streaming capabilities, we will create a vertically integrated model that enhances our ability to recover all valuable materials, reduce costs, and accelerate our value opportunities within the circular economy. The advice and support received from HMT’s Corporate Finance team was very professional and their expertise and tenacity kept the deal on track and helped us and the wider buyside team overcome some unexpected challenges that came up along the way.

Ian Austin

CEO at EGO

Having worked with HMT on a number of bolt-on acquisitions previously we were delighted to work with them again as buy side adviser to the Management team and LDC. The pragmatic advice and support both we and LDC received throughout the transaction was invaluable and they helped us overcome a number of roadblocks along the way. I look forward to working with the HMT team again as we make further acquisitions over the coming years.

Duncan Strike

CEO of Message Direct

HMT were mandated to find the right funding partner to support the management buyout of the company but also one that will allow SMC to accelerate its growth plans and enter new markets over the coming years. HMT spent time with the founders and the management team to understand SMC’s value proposition and ran a competitive process to optimise the funding terms. At various stages of the process they provided invaluable support and valuable commercial advice. The founders and management are now fully aligned to take the business forward and we look forward to working with HMT again when we the founders are ready to exit in full.

David Smith

SMC

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Our Partners have unparalleled deal experience in the mid-market and are supported by a team of dedicated deal-doers with specialist capabilities and experience.

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We have an extensive network of acquisitive corporates, institutional investors and debt providers both in the UK and internationally through our membership of our global network Cognos.

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