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Private Company Acquisitions, Disposals and Buyouts
Altium is one of Europe's leading mid-market cross-border M&A firms.
Our pan-European teams have been working together on cross-border as well as local transactions since the mid 1980s, advising on and executing mergers & acquisitions, management buy-outs and disposals.
When advising on a sale mandate on behalf of private or institutional vendors, our international reach is a key benefit for our clients as we are able to test the market with both trade and private equity purchasers globally.
In addition, where appropriate, we can advise on the prospects of an exit by way of IPO, tapping into the skills of our UK equity capital markets team, and run true ‘dual track’ processes where an IPO and sale are progressed in tandem.
Often we are required to play an objective role in coordinating the sale process where trade buyers are competing with the incumbent management team to acquire a business, a role which often requires careful management of all parties’ expectations.
Altium also has a long record of advising management teams looking to ’buy-out’ the businesses they work for and in helping them to secure the necessary finance, whether in the form of equity, debt or a combination of the two. With the benefit of our long-standing relationships with investors and lenders across Europe, we advise on the appropriate capital structure and negotiate the terms of the buy-out on behalf of the management team with both the financiers and the vendors.
To this range of skills we also bring the expertise of our specialist sector teams which brings an unusual depth of understanding, commercial as well as financial, to transactional situations - always for our clients’ benefit.