White Acres provides both public and private companies with a comprehensive range of corporate advisory services, as set out below.
Business plans and financial forecasts
Support for preparing business plans does not come from off-the-shelf packages or text books. Your business plan has to be tailored to your company, reflect the strength of your ambitions and clearly map out how you intend to put your business firmly in the driving seat of your industry.
Similarly your financial forecasts will only be as robust as the commercial inputs that drive them. Your plan’s underlying assumptions must dovetail exactly with your business plan, with a credible route tracing where you are now to where you want to be.
General corporate strategy
Life can be lonely at the top. Often the Chief Executive of large companies find few places to turn to for formulating the strategy of their business, weighing up that acquisition or managing their often disparate stakeholders.
White Acres can bring to your top table the benefit of several years experience of advising businesses like yours through the turbulent waters of corporate life, and help you achieve your goals.
Business valuations
The value of any business is whatever the market is prepared to support at any one time.
From the buyer’s standpoint it is driven by perceptions on value, the company’s potential and how it can satisfy the buyer’s strategic goals. On the other hand, vendors will have their own perceptions of future potential, and ‘worth’ can include other, perhaps less tangible or sentimental elements, particularly in family businesses.
Carrying out a formal business valuation may not offer you any guarantees on what buyers and sellers are prepared to pay at any one time, but it will provide you with a useful benchmark for what may be ‘fair value’. Business valuation techniques such as discounted cash flow and comparable quoted company analysis take the emotion out of pricing, and equips you with a platform for reasoned negotiation.
Mergers and acquisitions
You will read various statistics occasionally about how only so many acquisitions are successful. Why? Because unfortunately too many times company boards do not seek honest and objective advice.
White Acres can advise you on all aspects of buy-side support. From target identification, the approach, structuring the offer and agreeing the deal. How much should you pay? How should the consideration be structured (cash vs shares, upfront vs deferred, vendor loan vs earn-outs)? How should you fund the acquisition?
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