Merger & Acquisition Services

Merger & Acquisition Services practice is recognized as a worldwide leader in providing high quality, comprehensive, and strategically focused tax, accounting and advisory services to buyers or sellers in business combinations.

Whether you are making an acquisition, disposing of a business, going through a merger, entering into a joint venture, planning for IPO, planning for a public to private transaction, restructuring your business, reassessing management incentive plans or refinancing, tax risks need to be managed and net cash flows optimised. Our M&A tax specialists can work with you to achieve the optimal tax solution for your business model.

We advise and assist Company in entire merger and amalgamation process, drafting merger agreement, representation of case before Registrar of Companies, Regional directorate, Official Liquidators.

ABK offer a range of Mergers and Acquisition services to corporate and private equity investors covering all phases of domestic and cross-border transactions.

Our services include:

• Identification of the business to be acquired
• Tax due diligence
• Structuring an acquisition or disposition
• Tax modelling
• Vendor assistance
• Post-deal integration.

Why tax-efficient mergers and acquisitions matter?

We often wonder that why tax efficient mergers and acquisitions matter. Companies with global ambitions cannot afford to ignore the opportunities for profitable growth offered by mergers and acquisitions. But if these transactions are to create real value, it is important that the tax implications of each deal are dealt with from the very beginning. This is especially important in cross-border deals, where differing regulations and business cultures need to be reconciled in order to reveal the risks and opportunities of a transaction.

Similarly, private equity seeking to increase return on investment cannot afford to ignore tax. Recent trends show that M&A transactions have become more international and volumes have increased tremendously. Highly-leveraged transactions allow for big ticket deals, in particular within the private equity market.

Let’s understand how a deal is done?

In a highly professional and competitive deal environment, many transactions are organized as structured auctions. Only the strongest / highest bidder will win. When strategic investors compete with private equity for the few attractive targets offered, understanding how a deal is done becomes crucially significant. To assess the real value of a transaction you need to understand the historical tax risks associated with an enterprise for sale. To win an auction, you also need to evaluate and quantify upside potential. In many cases, tax can make a difference.

How we can ABK help your business?

ABK’s Mergers & Acquisition Tax practice can help companies to avoid pitfalls and seize opportunities. Working closely with us, our M&A Team of professionals provides:

• national and multi-jurisdictional tax due diligence for acquirers and vendors, identifying what the tax exposure is on a deal and how it may be mitigated.
• advice on the tax consequences of individual acquisitions, joint ventures and divestments in order to help design tax-efficient deal structures.
• assistance in forecasting post-deal tax liabilities in business models.
• post-transaction integration tax advice, which helps our member firms' clients reconcile their own tax positions and those of the acquired business.

Why choose ABK?

ABK can offer you experienced deal structuring and financing advice at all points throughout the Mergers and Acquisition deal cycle and, aside from our tax specialists, corporate finance and legal specialists can support you in all aspects of your transaction. Our deep experience, strong international network and commercial focus allow us to add real financial value to transactions.