Detail matters. So we take time to understand it. Whether you’re buying or selling, we maximise value and mitigate risk – acting with the kind of integrity you’d expect from a trusted advisor. And if we think a deal’s not right for you, we say so – and why. Anything less would undermine how deeply we invest in our relationship with you.
Corporates, private equity firms and owner-managed businesses trust in our high-quality advice. They benefit from our international reach and broad relationships across the M&A community. So it’s no surprise that our successful approach to advising on complex, cross-border transactions has earned us an impressive reputation.
We provide advice across a wide range of activities including:
Get the right experts on your side at the pivotal moment. We deliver disposals through competitive international auctions, driving value and deliverability for off-market offers. We also raise primary or secondary capital as equity or debt, deliver acquisitions, carry out share purchase agreement negotiation and more.
Where financial and tax details meet plain-speaking interpretation and guidance – including commercial recommendations on how risks can be mitigated and managed.
From the London Stock Exchange to Bursa Malaysia, our reporting accountants have considerable experience working with listed companies or those considering a flotation.
Our experts can help when you need independent, expert business and asset valuations for share schemes, tax planning and reconstruction transactions, purchase price allocations, legal disputes, and impairment reviews.
Latest Deals & Transactions
MHA's ethos leads to significant employee-ownership deal
MHA’s ethos of encouraging our people to work collaboratively in support of our clients has seen our corporate finance and tax teams support a Manchester and London-based design group become employee-owned.
MHA Corporate Finance Supports MAC2's Acquisition of InvestAcc Group
MHA corporate finance provides financial and tax due diligence services and acts as reporting accountant for Marwyn Acquisition Company II Limited’s (“MAC2”) proposed acquisition of InvestAcc Group Limited (“InvestAcc).
Unseen Group secures fresh private equity backing and Maven exit in MHA-led deal
Unseen Group secures private equity backing from Pelican Capital in an MHA-led deal, enabling future growth.
MHA act as reporting accountants for R.E.A. Holdings plc (REA) to reduce the group’s net indebtedness while it continues to invest in its oil palm operations
MHA act as reporting accountants for R.E.A Holdings PLC
Why MHA?
- We’re award-winning Our high-profile accolades include the coveted Insider Dealmaker Awards, the Game Changer Awards, the Corporate International Global Awards, the Finance Monthly CEO Awards and the Advisory Excellence Awards.
- We’re partner-led Taking a dedicated approach to building a trusted-advisor client relationship founded on integrity and dependability, we are passionate about applying a bold and creative mindset to working with and supporting our clients. We drive our transactions to conclusion, overcoming obstacles along the way to ensure the best value for our clients.
- We’re connected We have proven experience in advising clients from a range of sectors including health and social care, software and technology, industry and business services. Our extensive network of contacts, spanning private and listed companies, private equity and family office investors, as well as high street and niche debt providers allows us to maximise the probability of a successful outcome for your project.
- We're international We are the UK member firm of Baker Tilly International – the world’s ninth largest global advisory group, which means our teams of specialist advisors have extensive experience of working with businesses carrying out cross-border trading. We have access to specialist advisors and experts in 145 territories. So, whether you are an international company seeking new markets, or growing domestic business ready to expand overseas, we believe in the power of our unparalleled relationships with the global network to deliver results for your business.
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M&A Advisory
M&A transactions present an opportunity to realise, preserve, or accelerate growth of a shareholder value, as well as to embed operational growth and transformation. As an experienced and passionate M&A team, we provide a range of core and specialist services including:
- Disposals: selling your business
- Acquisitions
- M&A strategic advisory and exit planning
- Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) structuring and implementation
- Share purchase agreement (SPA) completion mechanism negotiation and advisory
- Carve-out divestitures
Our M&A advisory team takes a partnership-based approach and strives to apply a bold and creative mindset to working with and supporting our clients. We apply analytical rigour to deliver consummately professional strategic, financial, and commercial advice on M&A deals.
Transaction Services
Acquiring or investing in companies always involves information asymmetry and risk. Objective due diligence has a strong role to play in facilitating a buyer or investor to identify, manage, and mitigate risk as well as to help validate strategic, financial, operational, and broader commercial assumptions.
Our team provide succinct and informative reports which are underpinned by comprehensive analysis and commercial recommendations on how risk can be mitigated and managed in a transaction context.
We cover:
- Financial due diligence
- Tax due diligence
- Valuations
- Cross-border transactions
- Vendor due diligence and vendor assistance
- Completion accounts
- Financial model building and model reviews
- Post-deal planning
Capital Markets & Financial Advisory Services
Our dedicated capital markets team has considerable experience working with companies already listed, or considering a flotation, on a range of international markets including the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Premium and Standard), the AIM Market, AQUIS, TISE, NASDAQ & OTC, ASX, SGX, HKEK, Bursa Malaysia, TSX and TSX-V.
For those already listed on a capital market, we provide assurance and advisory services within independence rules and guidance. For companies considering an IPO, our Capital Markets team regularly provides independent and objective advice on the options and alternatives available and offer investor-ready services to help clients best prepare for market admission and act as reporting accountants on the transaction.
Services include:
Reporting accountants – full range of services to support the IPO
- Investor-ready review
- External and internal audit
- Financial reporting advisory
- Tax compliance and advisory
- Sustainability advisory
- Regulatory consulting
- Forensic services
Management Advisory
Our team can help you to structure, negotiate commercial and financial terms, and deliver management buy-outs, management buy-ins and combination buy-in management buy-outs. We can also introduce an equity partner and negotiate funding terms to deliver a management-led transaction, as well as raise debt as an exclusive source of funding, or alongside equity to deliver a management-led transaction.
Raising Capital
In a fast-moving and unpredictable economic climate, raising finance can be a challenge for businesses, whatever their priorities. Our team have an extensive network of contacts across private equity and debt finance to help you find the right solution and partner for your business.
We have the expertise and insight to help clients reach the next stage of their growth. We will guide you through this complex market, whatever the size or structure of your business and whatever your finance needs.
Our team can help you to:
- Raise equity through our network of venture capital trust, private equity and family office contacts to introduce primary capital to fund growth, or secondary capital for full and partial equity release
- Raise debt to fund
- Venture debt advisory
Valuations
Specialist independent valuations and opinions our crucial to help a business take the right next step. Our team of valuation experts provide skilled analysis and expert opinion for either buying or selling a business.
Our valuations services cover:
- Control
- Minority
- EMI option valuations
- Growth shares
- Court appointed & joint single expert
- Shareholder disputes
- Probate
- Purchase price allocation
Our corporate finance team
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Partner
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Corporate Finance Partner and Transaction Services Leader
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Partner
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Partner
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Senior Advisor and Head of Capital Markets
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