Emergent provides commercial and financial due diligence services to objectively evaluate potential investment opportunities. Our customized approach enables us to deliver insights into strategic, market, financial, and operational risks, as well as identify potential value-creation opportunities. This methodology ensures effective support for you and your business.

1.Finance Due Diligence

Financial due diligence focuses on an independent, thorough analysis to verify a target company’s financial performance against its projected growth. By examining key business drivers and their financial effects, Emergent can identify significant financial risks and uncover opportunities for efficiency and value creation.

2.Commercial Due Diligence

Commercial due diligence entails a thorough analysis of a business’s commercial drivers and the broader market environment. This process illuminates product and market dynamics, the competitive landscape, external factors, and growth opportunities for the target business. It also aims to identify key strategic and operational risks. By collaborating with experts in various sectors and functions, including legal, tax, and technology, we deliver comprehensive and conclusive due diligence studies.

Raising capital can be a tedious, long and uncertain undertaking, which can be overwhelming for some. Emergent offers expertise in packaging a business and investment case for companies seeking funding. We help our clients raise capital optimizing the returns for our clients and co-designing funding structures that come at the least cost of capital. We assist our clients in the following scenarios:

Offer transaction advisory services to clients seeking to raise capital

Support in the restructuring of financial assets and liabilities

Advise on the most effective corporate financing structure

Provide negotiation support to secure commitments on favorable terms

Emergent specialises in creating detailed information memoranda to best communicate the business opportunity to investors and lenders. Clients needing business plans benefit from our team’s backgrounds in management consulting and corporate finance. We help you clearly articulate your organisation’s product offering, value proposition, and business model, highlighting its investment case and potential. Typically, these memoranda or business plans are complemented by a concise, compelling pitch deck that summarises the key points.

We at Emergent offer business valuation services tailored according to stage in the lifecycle of the business, and industry type. Typically, we undertake fundamental valuations which are based on extracted historic information and forecasting models. We also apply alternative valuation methodologies such as market multiples, asset-based and comparables-based approaches.   We strive to be objective and help our clients understand how they can unlock value in the short term in order to enhance valuation of their companies.

We offer valuation services in various cases including:

During raising of capital particularly equity investments

Acquisitions where business owners wish to sell either the entire business or a stake

Partnership buyouts to establish a fair price when one partner is buying out another

When a business intends to award and determine share options

During Bankruptcy proceedings to assess the value of assets during reorganization or liquidation

Strategic Planning to understand the business’s worth and inform decision-making processes

Regulatory requirements when required by laws or regulations for compliance purposes

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures can drive an enterprise’s growth. Our team helps clients craft a creative M&A strategy, assess strategic fit, evaluate synergies, assist in negotiations, and measure transaction implications. Emergent guides a client’s team through options, identifies risks and rewards, and advises on the consequences of every decision during the transaction.

Emergent has both Sell-side and Buy-side advisory services

Sell-Side M&A Advisory

We are well-positioned to represent sellers and manage confidential sell processes from beginning to end. Our sell-side advisory services include:

Valuation analysis of the business

Development of a pitch deck

Preparation of Information Memorandum

Identification of buyer prospects

Assistance in structuring the transaction

Buy-Side M&A Advisory

We also provide buy-side advisory services to businesses that seek to grow through strategic acquisitions. Our buy-side services include:

Research and identification of acquisition targets

Assistance in valuing acquisition candidates

Assistance in structuring the transaction

Negotiation of the initial offer and final purchase agreement