Mergers and acquisitions

With ongoing low economic growth, mergers and acquisitions remain an important way for businesses to reach their strategic ambitions for growth, grow market share or expand geographic footprint or products and services.

As well as offering significant opportunities, mergers and acquisitions are highly complex and risky transactions. From deal strategy and due diligence, to agreeing terms and integrating or selling a business, Grant Thornton goes beyond the normal advisory role to help you overcome those challenges.

We can guide you – whether you are acquiring or divesting – through the financial issues and make sure you assemble the right resources, optimise transaction terms, get the deal done and lay the groundwork for long-term success.

How we help

Grant Thornton’s seamless support, which leverages the full suite of offerings across the firm and our global network, brings real value to the merger and acquisition process, ensuring parties remain informed, processes are completed smoothly and efficiently and optimal outcomes achieved.

Our merger and acquisitions consultants are independent of all debt and equity providers and provide impartial, hands-on strategy and transaction execution advice. We design and execute process and transaction management and ensure timely progress of the various pieces of the strategy.

Our merger and acquisition services

• Acquisition searches and strategy 
• Advising buy-out and buy-in teams
• Business planning
• Debt re-financing and raising
• Divestments
• Due diligence
• Financial modelling
• Merger integration
• Project finance and bid support
• Raising private equity
• Roll up / buy and build strategies
• Strategic reviews
• Tax structuring and advisory