CFA’s approach to M&A starts before the opening of negotiations and continues after the deal is closed. CFA’s M&A consultants are experts in advising both corporate and private equity buyers and sellers whether they are financial or strategic investors. We provide both financial and technical HR due diligence, post-merger integration strategy and support and project management.

Specific solutions revolve around people and technology for a full range of strategic transactions including:

• Acquisitions
• Mergers
• Asset Swaps
• Joint Ventures
• Strategic Alliances
• Defence and Independent Fairness Opinions
• Financing Debt and Equity Vehicles
• Divestures
• Spin-Offs
• Split-Offs
• Restructurings
• Asset Valuations

We also support clients with pre-close and post-close solutions, making sure our clients have the right people and they are focused on the right things. We work to identify key strategic HR decisions required based on the nature of the transaction, manage and execute HR functional areas, define leadership team and organisation structure and assess culture and change impact. Post deal, we focus on organisational values to reflect the firm vision, smooth operations to achieve deal goals and support on various other aspects such as harmonisation of HR strategy, refinement of organisational structure, HR technology usage, processes and infrastructure development in light of change, workforce onboarding, culture-led transformation, stakeholder engagement and communications work streams.

CFA can help private equity buyers perform accelerated yet effective due diligence, help mitigate risk and ensure the deal gets done — all while setting strategy to help maximise value.

Today, our group of experienced advisors have specialities across most industry sectors.