M&A advisory

Our M&A Advisory team guides our clients through the complex world of business sales, MBOs, acquisitions and mergers. We will provide intelligent, supportive and proactive advice to our clients whether they are buyers, sellers or just seeking to restructure or rebalance their shareholdings. Our job is to get our clients the best possible deal for them.

Our role usually extends the full length of the transaction, is fully hands-on and can cover any or all of the following aspects:

Determining likely valuation parameters, defining clear transaction objectives and setting process
Communicating the opportunity clearly and compellingly to the market
Ensuring that the right counter-parties are identified and approached with appropriate confidentiality arrangements in place
Helping to Build the right financial and commercial data room to support the transaction
Producing or refining financial forecasts appropriate for the process
Negotiating indicative terms and ensuring that all key aspects of a transaction are clearly understood pre due diligence
Supporting through the due diligence process, assisting with the negotiation and resolution of any points arising and managing the flows of Q&A
Project Managing to ensure that everything is done efficiently and by the right party at the right time
Advising on the completion mechanism and any completion adjustments

Mostly people only SELL a business once in their lives and mostly it is a business they have spent a lifetime building. So, selecting advisers for that sale process and making sure you trust their advice is a decision worth taking time over

We understand that for many of our clients, M&A can be a bewildering process, littered with acronyms and assumed knowledge. We draw on our many years’ experience and work alongside them to ensure they are always on the front foot, understand precisely what they are signing up to and can trust they have a formidable team on their side throughout. We run the process so you can run your business.

Clarify objectives and value drivers

Go to market

Agree Heads of Terms

Prepare documentation and research the market

Build rapport and negotiate

Due diligence, legals and completion

Having worked with HMT on a number of bolt-on acquisitions previously we were delighted to work with them again as buy side adviser to the Management team and LDC. The pragmatic advice and support both we and LDC received throughout the transaction was invaluable and they helped us overcome a number of roadblocks along the way.

Duncan Strike

CEO of Message Direct

As the shareholders of SCT Russell and I have been delighted with HMT’s advice, direction and overall professionalism in securing the sale of SCT to WestBridge. Throughout the process of building the IM, finding the interested parties and guiding us through the selection to negotiating the SPA, Wendy and Ricky provided sound invaluable commercial guidance with realism, always in our best interests.

Greg Stone

Shareholder of SCT

Nick and I are delighted to have appointed HMT as lead advisors on this transaction. The team were very hands-on and professional from the preparation phase all the way through to completion. Their experience, pragmatism and tenacity were vital in closing the deal.

Gary Rees

Founder and CEO of Synergy Retail Support

HMT were instrumental in not only identifying the right buyer but helping drive the transaction to an aggressive timeline. The team at HMT provided sage counsel throughout and we thank them for their dedication and can-do attitude throughout.

Jonathan Morgan

CEO of Object Matrix

HMT provided us with invaluable advice and assistance during the transaction process, utilising their commercial expertise to manage a successful deal. Andrew and his team were professional, supportive, and responsive throughout and I’d have no hesitation in recommending them to anyone seeking investment or a sale of their business.

Nathan Wilson

Managing Director of Sportsworld

HMT were mandated to find the right funding partner to support the management buyout of the company but also one that will allow OMM to accelerate its growth plans over the coming years. HMT spent time with us to understand OMM’s value proposition, our market position and the cash flow requirements of the business and ran a competitive process to optimise the funding terms.

Howard Campion

Group Managing Director at OMM

Services

Fundraising Advisory

Transaction Support

M&A advisory

Why HMT

Passionate

We are passionate about delivering an optimal outcome for our clients and helping them achieve their personal objectives. We understand entrepreneurial businesses because we are one

Our Deals

Personal

Partners are supported by high-calibre professional staff who share our core values of enthusiasm, energy, entrepreneurialism and empathy to our client’s objectives

Our Team

Proven

Our Partners have unparalleled deal experience in the mid-market and are supported by a team of dedicated deal-doers with specialist capabilities and experience

Our Awards

Connected

We have an extensive network of acquisitive corporates, institutional investors and debt providers both in the UK and internationally through our membership of our global network ICFG

Our Network

How
we can help

M&A Advisory

Whether you are a business owner seeking a full or partial exit, a management team with ambition to acquire the business you are running, a corporate or a private equity investor seeking support with acquisitions, HMT has the expertise, experience, and depth of resource to support you to achieve your objectives

Sell & Buy

Fundraising Advisory

HMT’s team can support you and your business to raise the right funds at the right time from the right funding partner. From Series A, through growth capital and with specialist debt advisory capability, our hands-on team can help you to navigate the ever-changing funding landscape to get to the optimum solution

Fund

Transaction Support

Our due diligence team has a vast breadth and depth of experience across a huge range of Financial and Vendor due diligence assignments gained over thirty years. With dedicated financial modelling capability and our own due diligence tax specialist, we provide pragmatic commercial advice to private equity and corporate investors and acquirers alike

Support