Comprehensive transaction advisory from start to finish and beyond
Our transaction services are geared to help you throughout all phases of the deal. With comprehensive, integrated due diligence spanning financial, tax, and operations diligence, we provide transaction advisory support to help you understand and overcome critical risks. Once the deal is completed, our advisory transaction services experts continue to stand by your side by supporting opening balance sheet, post-transaction accounting and tax, and integration efforts.
Identifying the associated risks and opportunities of a target company is critical to a successful transaction. Dunebay helps strategic and financial investors through a comprehensive analysis of the financial and operational landscape.
Throughout the transaction lifecycle, Dunebay's senior-level advisors take a hands-on approach to assessing all potential challenges and value drivers related to a target company. We evaluate the quality of historical earnings and working capital underlying a deal's critical valuation metrics and assess its corporate governance and financial reporting environment. Dunebay is not restricted with the regulatory conflicts facing public accounting firms, enabling our teams to take a deeper dive into the transaction process alongside our clients.
Before participating in any transaction, it is not only necessary to understand the target company's quality of earnings, but also the quality of revenue, tax considerations, and potentially the operational and functional opportunities and risks. We are flexible in our approach to buy-side due diligence, and recognize that buyers may need everything from a limited scope quality of earnings report, to a fully integrated due diligence on the buy side which brings together classic financial, operational, and tax due diligence. Our teams are constructed to ensure there is a single project leader who is deeply involved and guides a team custom tailored to meet the needs of the various stakeholders.
Our services extend beyond the moment the deal is closed, as well. In addition to our buy-side advisory capabilities, you can count on us to provide opening balance sheet and purchase accounting support, integration services, and ongoing post-close solutions as needed. Our goal is to ensure the entire process is as seamless for you as possible.
Every seller wants to maximize value, accelerate deal timelines, and enhance close certainty. Dunebay's sell-side advisory services help clients capitalize on opportunities and achieve successful outcomes by proactively identifying and resolving potential financial and operational issues.
Collaborating with investment banks and advisors, we guide and support clients' transactions. Dunebay's sell-side services include preparing consistent and reliable financial reporting and forecasting, organizing and managing data, presenting rolling historical and pro forma results, and strategically positioning deal priorities. Our work forms the basis for quality of earnings analysis, financial models, and buyer diligence workstreams and expectations. Because Dunebay is not restricted by regulatory conflicts like public accounting firms, our experts can dive deeper into the transaction process with clients. The best strategic deal outcomes are often only unlocked by insights buried in the details.
Our sell-side advisory methodology revolves around creating immediate value while also realizing long-term potential. We provide clients with the necessary sell-side due diligence they need to enter deals with confidence. Dunebay's experience with clients across all industries sets it apart from other sell-side firms.
Clients trusting in our sell-side solutions reduce their risk and uncertainty, accelerate timelines, minimize tax impact, and preserve transactional value.
Business valuation requires a solid grasp of both how value has been created prior to the valuation date, and how it will continue to be created in the future. The foundation of business valuation is the ability to understand how a company cultivates ideas or concepts and deploys its invested capital, aiming to drive returns in excess of its cost of capital. The process of value creation does not follow a single path, but rather many paths that vary by industry and the company's position in its life cycle. Understanding this process is at the heart of our extensive valuation experience, whether we are performing a valuation analysis for financial reporting, tax, M&A, strategic planning, business restructuring, or dispute and litigation purposes.
Many have described business valuation as both an art and a science. The scientific and analytical aspect employs a variety of approaches or methods applied not only to the subject of the valuation itself, but also to the development of certain inputs into the measurement (e.g. cost of capital, discounts and premiums). The most commonly used valuation methods include the cost, market or income (DCF) approaches. While the cost approach may be applied on occasion, the income and market approaches are by far the most commonly utilized in business valuation. The income approach measures value based upon the present value of future cash flows of the business enterprise, while the market approach relies upon the application of market multiples of comparable companies or comparable transactions to the subject company.
The art of a valuation lies in the ability to apply these tools in an effective manner, utilizing professional judgment. This type of insight is gained over years of experience across the spectrum of company life cycles, industries, jurisdictions, and valuation purposes, and also calls for a deep understanding of regulators' and other stakeholders' requirements and expectations.
We tailor the scope of our business valuations to our client's specific needs and the purpose of the engagement. When appropriate, our valuation report provides an overview of the company, industry, economy; discusses value drivers; outlines the analysis performed, along with the inputs and assumptions; and incorporates detailed exhibits that support our valuation conclusion.
Our dedicated modelling professionals work collaboratively with clients to scope, design, build, test and hand over robust, user-friendly financial modelling solutions. Leveraging our global network, we bring together the right sector insight and technical skills to solve problems.
We can develop solutions in Excel, VBA and other technologies such as SQL, Alteryx and Power BI.
Our independent model review service gives clients and their stakeholders confidence that the models and forecasts on which they are basing investment or other strategic decisions are robust and free from error.
Increasingly businesses understand the value inherent in the data they hold and the potential it has to support their strategic and operational decision-making. Our unique offering combines data science skills with a team with real-world commercial experience, so we understand the bigger picture and the data.
Descriptive Analytics: Descriptive analytics is the interpretation of historical data to better understand what has driven changes in a business. We can consolidate large and complex data sets, combining business data and other sources, to provide an intuitive way to explore and understand the drivers of value and risk in a business. We work with sell-side and buy-side teams across the deal lifecycle to maximize value and minimize risk.
Contact us today to discuss how our transaction services can support your next deal.
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