ACQUSITIONS & DISPOSALS

Buying or selling a business is a complex, personal and unique task. Our corporate finance team can help you identify and navigate legal and financial challenges before they become an issue.

We have proven expertise and years of experience and can help you to:

• prepare your business for sale
• identify potential targets or purchasers
• carry out due diligence to identify areas of concern
• assist with negotiations
• advise on raising capital and providing introductions to contacts that may help
• manage taxation issues
• develop a robust business structure
• advise on & implement succession plans

DUE DILIGENCE

When buying a business, you need to know whether there are skeletons hiding in the cupboard.  You also need to know whether the business is worth what you are proposing to pay for it.

Swindells carry out comprehensive due diligence on potential acquisitions and look for issues that may not be obvious at the outset.  We provide you with the facts so that you can make a sound judgement based on objective and comprehensive data. We review the valuation of assets, the business’ viability, management information and forecasts and the company’s financial position.

TAX PLANNING

Our specialist advisers will assist with creating tax efficient strategies for your business while ensuring that you comply with tax legislation.

We can help ensure your business minimises its tax burden by:

• Advising on the most effective tax structure for your business.
• Utilising available tax reliefs.
• Assisting with claims for R & D tax credits, Patent Box and capital allowances.
• Dealing with tax enquiries.
• Planning for group taxation issues
• Implementing remuneration strategies
• Preparing dividend policies
• VAT advice and guidance

RESTRUCTURING

As accountants we work with a significant number of businesses over many sectors and industries. We see best practice and what has worked for other companies to improve on their current position. We can advise on and help to implement a robust and future proofed business structure to increase profits and grow your company.

FUND RAISING & FINANCE

Raising finance in today’s climate is becoming a more detailed process, investors and banks want to be more certain on their investment. We have lots of contacts in the banking industry as well as business angels, equity investors and mezzanine finance providers, we also know what information they are looking for to make their decision.

We can help give you the best chance of securing your funding by:

• helping you to prepare business plans, cash flow forecasts and proposals to finance providers
• creating professional and motivating presentations
• advising on whether debt or equity is the right direction
• discussing alternative options to debt such as credit control and using working capital

We can also help you to decide whether you should take on extra debt or whether you could just improve your credit control procedures and squeeze your working capital a bit harder.