Service Overview
Transaction Processing Services

It is well known that more than half of mergers and acquisitions fail to meet investor or shareholder expectations. The reason? Too much emphasis on completing the transaction, not enough on making the transaction work. For your acquisition to be more successful, you need an advisor with strong due diligence, structuring and business integration skills.

We gain an understanding of your purpose in making the acquisition. We help you discover the risks associated with your target. We consider local and cross border tax issues. We clarify potential integration problems and help develop an integration plan. We look for purchase price latitude - and help you structure an optimal bid. With our understanding of your short and long-term goals, we can identify potential accounting, tax and reporting issues to consider in structuring the transaction.

Our professionals work closely with your staff, attorneys, and other advisors - and become valued members of your transaction team. And after closing, when other advisors have departed, we roll up our sleeves and help you implement your strategies to make the acquisition work.

Our Transaction Services include:
Pre-deal evaluation

 
Early identification of any possible deal breakers will help you to avoid protracted and costly negotiations. We therefore offer the first phase of the due diligence process in a pre-deal evaluation. Here we broadly assess the financial and commercial viability of the proposed transaction such that management can decide whether to make an offer and at what price.
 

Features

 
  • Identifies key risks and potential deal breakers.
  • Assesses target's strengths and weaknesses against industry benchmarks.
  • Evaluates potential investment in context of your existing business.
 
Benefits
 
Helps you identify potential competitive and operational risks and opportunities associated with the target
Transaction evaluation
 

we believe that effective due diligence depends on identifying and managing significant transaction issues anticipating and in identifying potentially important risk and negotiation issues. Our approach is to save you time, money and effort as well as help to influence the price at the outset of the deal.

  Features
 
  • Gathers, analyses and interprets financial, commercial and tax information in detail.
  • Serves both buyers and sellers.
  • Analyses past and current performance patterns.
  Benefits
 
  • Enhances probability of success by providing detailed intelligence on key risks and benefits throughout the transaction.
  • Identifies contract warranties
Structuring the deals
Within the commercial framework of a deal, a wide range of financing and structuring options are possible.Our professionals who are familiar with the tax laws in states and countries where you will be doing business focus on the most effective options in terms of cost and tax efficiency.

Features

  • Analyze acquirer's current position and commercial objectives.
  • Evaluate tax and exchange management regulatory framework to achieve desired investment level.
  • Determine most favorable accounting and tax treatment.
  • Provide inputs for drafting key agreements.
Benefits
  • Maximize returns of a new corporate entity while minimizing tax burden.
  • Protect acquirers legal position in key agreements.
  • Anticipate impact of deal financing, compensation arrangements and the deal structure itself on reported results.
Assistance in negotiations and managing the deal
Even when a deal has been agreed, there is still much to do. Effective time and resource management is critical to the successful completion of a transaction. Our services include setting and monitoring the timetable, taking each step forward towards completion and liaising closely with other professionals working on the transaction. We tailor our services to your needs and provide you with regular progress reports and updates.
Features
  • Discussing the valuation.
  • Negotiation of financial terms.
  • Outlining preferable terms.
  • Briefly describing tax and accounting consequences of each proposal.
  • Suggesting counter proposal alternatives.
  • Communicating with interested parties.
  • Reporting potential problems.
  • Attending and assisting in all negotiating sessions leading to a transaction.
Benefits
Helps manage the negotiation process and achieve successful implementation without undue delay .
Prospective reporting

All organizations plan. They have goals and have plans to achieve those goals. The most effective way to translate the goals of an organization in a form apt for general presentation is prospective reporting. In other words, any financial information that reflects the future financial position and results of operations presented in the form of financial forecasts or financial projections is prospective reporting. At GKCCO we not only review prospective information but also perform due diligence on prospective information making your acquisition a business success.

Features

Evaluation of the preparation, underlying assumptions and presentation of the prospective financial statements.

Benefits
Highlights whether there is a rational relationship between the underlying assumptions and facts and that the assumptions made are consistent without undue optimism.
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