Buying or selling a company
You might be considering buying or selling a company or one of its divisions and this will inevitably entail having to make decisions. The process can be exciting because you see that you are working on a new phase and the company that you run is ready for the next step.
Particularly in this key phase, we will be pleased to work alongside you to define the various possibilities. We will calculate values and analyse prices. We will look at the sector and the competition - and indeed the entire business landscape. We will identify financial structures.
Our approach gives you a clear and transparent picture of your options. You will be able to compare them at a glance and get an impression of your company’s potential development now and in the years ahead. With this information at your fingertips, you will be well placed to make sound decisions.
Subsequently, we will be happy to support you along the total transaction path and work with you towards a perfect deal. You will look back with a sense of satisfaction – not just because of the deal, but because throughout the process you were able to devote your almost undivided attention to your management duties.
That other matter of financing and evaluation was handled by Zanders Corporate Finance, which is reassuring.
Taking over a company
It’s a dream come true if you can become the owner of a company that you helped to build up and manage, because the company will be yours.
Besides your day-to-day managerial duties, you will need to do a lot of arithmetic.
Questions will arise such as: what if the asking price is seven times the profit - do you acquire the shares or the assets, should you set up your own management company and is it better to finance the deal with your own money using the excess value in your mortgage or with borrowed capital? But how and with whom?
At Zanders Corporate Finance, we find this an energising process, because it’s what we do best. For you, too, it is an exciting time, taking you into unknown territory and consuming almost all your attention. This is exactly how it should be, because you are on the eve of a new era.
Zanders Corporate Finance is committed to ensuring that you truly enjoy this process. You will feel supported, you will know that you are taking decisions on the strength of properly thought-out choices built on solid calculations. We will examine the value, we will arrange the legal and fiscal structures and financing, we will make sure that your own company is the best possible fit for you.
Besides your dream, you will be able to get on with the business of managing your company. That is very reassuring.
Participating interests
You want your company to grow robustly but you may also wish to free up some of the value you have created in your company.
Your options are numerous and Zanders Corporate Finance will be pleased to give you a clear picture of the possibilities.
Among other things we can help with the placing of shares or loans at venture capital companies and other (informal) investors we have in our network. You will need to decide who to use and how. We can give you solid assistance in addressing such questions.
One of the specialisations of Zanders Corporate Finance is taking on board this entire process of preparing, structuring, requesting and handling participating interests, including the fiscal and legal profiles. We do it in a reassuring way, because it allows you to concentrate on what you do best - managing your company.
Financing growth
Growth is wonderful, particularly if it stems from your own entrepreneurship. But growth often needs a new financing basis. You need to consider this matter in good time. Let Zanders Corporate Finance do the work for you. Financing acquisitions, sizeable national/international projects, major investments – all require an astute financing strategy. Not just for today, but for tomorrow as well.
Everything must fit in seamlessly with your company. Zanders Corporate Finance will help you establish your financing strategy, analyse your financing requirement and determine the optimum financing structure.
We will approach potential financiers in our network, like banks and investors (including institutional investors), we will evaluate term sheets and loan documentation and work towards closing the transaction with the most favourable conditions for you. We will cover the fiscal and legal aspects.
Perhaps the most reassuring thing about our approach is that from start to finish you can maintain your focus on growing your company.
Clients
Zanders Corporate Finance provides services for large corporates, mid-size companies and family-owned businesses.
Corporates
We work for multinational groups, listed or otherwise. We support them by overseeing management buy-outs, by raising acquisition financing and by arranging refinancing.
Mid-size companies
These are sizeable companies (with turnover in excess of €100 million), listed or otherwise, with international scope. Zanders Corporate Finance assists them in buying or selling transactions, a management buy-out of a division of the company and the raising of acquisition financing.
Private companies and family-owned businesses
This category includes mid-size companies with a turnover from roughly €25 million of which a majority of shares are held (indirectly) by private individuals (directors who are major shareholders). Zanders Corporate Finance will be pleased to assist in succession issues, buying or selling transactions, a management buy-out of part of the company and acquisition financing.
