Our Corporate Finance Department

Corporate Finance covers a wide spectrum of assignments from buying or selling a business to ensuring that the business has adequate appropriately structured finance to assist its management to achieve is objectives. All of our Accounts Partners can provide these services though the majority of the large external corporate finance projects won by the firm have been placed through the Corporate Finance Department under the control of Managing Partner Nigel Whittle and ably assisted by our Senior Tax Manager Gill Phillpot and Senior Manager Steve Jones. On the acquisition/disposal front our support includes:

Due Diligence Reports Valuing the Business Reviewing Sale Documents, particularly the Tax Document Taxation advice to the seller as to how to minimise tax liabilities Special Reports in connection with the reorganisation of share capital

On the finance front for all our clients we can help you:

• Conduct a feasibility study of your projects
• Decide on the most suitable sources of finance - personal capital, bank overdraft, long-term commercial loans and mortgages, national and regional agencies, venture capital, or equity capital
• Prepare the necessary business plan, forecasts etc.
• Present your proposals to your chosen finance source
• Arrange a disposal, merger/acquisition, or management buyout/in
• Our expertise and contacts will help you open doors that may otherwise have remained closed for you.