Corporate advisory case study
Company C
Challenges facing the client:
- Looking to find an exit for existing shareholders
- CEO wanted to crystallise some value having built the business from small beginnings into a significant healthcare services provider
- Assignment to be handled discreetly
Acanthus facilitated the fundraising process by:
- Identifying the potential for a secondary management buy-out and the obstacles
- Performing a complete review of the business and leading the team through a five year strategic planning exercise with detailed projections, sensitivity analyses, analysis of historic trading, market positioning analyses and add-on acquisition reviews
- Producing high quality information memorandum, business plan and management presentations
- Assuming total project management of process:
- Short listing potential counterparties
- Contacting a targeted number of potential counterparties
- Regular feedback to client
- Providing a high degree of focus and commitment to a challenging process
- Working closely with the client and legal advisers in negotiating legal documents including numerous legal firms and other professional advisers
- Finding solutions to obstacles, particularly in the legal negotiations
Acanthus is a plant which grows vigorously and pervasively in Mediterranean countries, the leaves of which were admired by the ancient Greeks for their elegance. The design of the Acanthus leaf has been used as a stylized motif throughout history and its conventional representation frequently decorated Greek and Roman works of art and later those of Renaissance and Baroque artists. Of special note is its use in capitals of the Corinthian order.