MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
CTCF has completed numerous transactions across our specialist sectors since we began trading, with deal sizes ranging from £380k to £45m. We have relationships with nearly every wealth management and Private Equity buyer in the UK, and we help sellers fully understand the differences between acquirers’ propositions so they can make an informed decision on which option best suits their ambitions.
To help you with the sale of your business we will hold your hand through the process and help collate all the information required by any acquirer.
We would help you by taking the time to discuss your business, the people behind it and the services you provide to gain a true and complete understanding of how your business operates and generates revenue and the opportunities for the future.
Below is an outline of just some of the things we would do throughout the process.
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We would create a complete and in-depth information memorandum providing a forensic picture of your business
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Take a deep dive into the company financials and forward forecast the earnings for the year to come
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Create a detailed description of the business's proposition, client service offerings, charging structures and how new clients are discovered and brought on board.
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Provide an outline of any previous acquisitions made by the business, how they have been successfully integrated and a demonstration of how flexible the business can be in terms of the offers it produces
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Provide an outline of the future growth plans of the business and a showing of how these plans are achievable.
CAPITAL RAISING
We offer out clients the ability to have access to financing in the private capital markets through the issuance of debt, equity or a blend of both. Our team have plenty of experience and a strong track record of successfully providing a wide-ranging set of solutions to our client’s needs within this sector.
Our strong and long-standing relationships with various providers enable us to find solutions to our clients’ funding requirements.
We provide fundraising services for a wide range of clients which in the past has ranged from large publicly traded companies to the smaller privately held firms. We utilise our superior sector knowledge and understanding to make sure can effectively provide support to any business within our specialist sectors.
We treat every transaction on a case-by-case basis and therefore approach each one with the ultimate objective of creating a capital structure that allows our clients to achieve their long-term business strategies with the most favourable terms in the market. We can act as a strategic advisor for many different forms of financing ranging from leveraged loans, mezzanine debt and minority equity positions.
The capital markets environment is ever changing and becoming ever more complex and difficult to navigate on your own, so we believe it is critical to have a trusted advisory service with the right level of experience and a proven ability to deliver a personalised financing solution.
CTCF works with all of their clients in the capital markets as a placement agent with the ability to offer private client’s market-leading access to all aspects of private capital. We work with clients to create individual private capital solutions such as revolving credit facilities, first-lien, second lien and unitranche terms loans, mezzanine debt and minority equity positions (preferred equity, convertible preferred equity etc). The uses of the funds raised can be wide ranging but can include, acquisition finance, growth capital, shareholder liquidity and special situations.
We maintain a strong and active network of different financial institutions, global asset managers, direct lenders, private equity houses and family offices all seeking to invest in, or lend directly to, businesses looking to grow. By utilising these resources alongside our expertise in structuring and executing these types of transactions we are capable of providing our capital pursuing clients the widest ranging selection of funding choices available.
We aim to provide fully independent advisory services and help clients in achieving the best possible execution of a transaction by helping to determine which markets to access, which type of structure suits their needs best and how to best position their business with lots of different capital market participants in order to make sure they receive the best terms.
With our strong sector experience and understanding of the capital markets in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate structuring, we can provide capital markets advice and diverse solutions to address all sort of challenging financing scenarios.
OTHER SERVICES
Sell-Side Advisory
As a company, we have successfully helped our clients with sell-side mandates for some of the leading privately owned businesses within the financial sector. We are capable of expertly positioning businesses for a sale and explaining the investment rationale to potential acquiring firms.
Buy-Side Advisory
We act as a trusted adviser to many leading national and global institutions across the financial services sector in relation to private acquisitions. We can provide in-depth and innovative advice to clients on transactions. We can evaluate potential targets, initiate discussions, provide context-specific to the sector and recommend financial and structuring models to assist in any transaction.
TRANSACTIONS
