It is expert service which is provided to investors, corporate and institutions to identify and acquire a target business which has potential growth prospects. It involves specialised industry expertise along with business understanding to close a deal at right value.
It involves advising a promoter or existing investors of a business to identify a target buyer, acquirer who can be strategic buyer or another investor.
A leveraged buyout (LBO) is an acquisition of another company using borrowed money to the cost of acquisition. The assets of the company being acquired are often used as collateral for the loans, along with the assets of the acquiring company. The purpose of leveraged buyouts is to allow companies to make large acquisitions without having to commit a lot of capital.
A transaction where a company's management team purchases the assets and operations from existing shareholders of the business they manage. A management buyout (MBO) is appealing to professional managers, because of the greater potential. A management buy-in (MBI) is a corporate action in which an outside manager or management team purchases an ownership stake in the first company and replaces the existing management team.
A strategic Tie up / joint venture is a business agreement between two companies to work together to achieve specific goals. Unlike a merger or acquisition, a strategic Tie Up / joint venture does not have to be permanent, and it offers companies the benefits of maintaining their independence and identities as individual companies while offsetting one or more weaknesses with another company's strengths.