Business today is under more pressure than ever to deliver better, lasting results for stakeholders. At KPMG, we think like an investor, looking at how opportunities to buy, sell, partner, fund or fix a company can add and preserve value.

Today’s deals do not happen in a vaccum. So from your business strategy to your acquisition strategy, your plans for divestments or for raising funds, or even your need to restructure, every decision must be made in light of your entire business, your sector, and the global economy.

Our teams of specialists combine a global mindset and local experience with deep sector knowledge and superior analytic tools to help you navigate a complex, fragmented process.

From helping to plan and implement strategic change to measurably increasing portfolio value, we focus on delivering tangible results. The kind of results that let you clearly see what you gained from the deal at hand, and what you want to bring to the next deal down the road.

Real results, achieved by integrated specialists.

Our services

Buying a business
Selling a business
Partnering
Valuations

Buying a business

As you execute your company’s growth strategy through acquisitions you will reach a number of decision points. From identifying target markets and potential targets to running an efficient transaction process and realising upside or synergy value, we help you confidently navigate the complexities of buying a business, unlocking value at every stage.

We help identify key risks and rewards throughout the acquisition life cycle – even for the most complex deals. We help you align deals with your strategic business objectives, maintain compliance and enhance value from integration and potential upside opportunity.

Our integrated team of specialists helps you focus on the key questions during the critical stages of planning and executing an acquisition.

Deal strategy

How do I maximise shareholder value and returns?
Option identification

What businesses can I acquire in my target markets?
Evaluation

What is the asset worth to me?
Deal execution

How do I get the deal done at the right price?
Pre-close

How do I plan for a successful Day 1?
100 days

What is my plan for delivering the deal value?
Value realisation

How do I maximise value?

Selling a business

When it comes to selling a business, a successful strategy requires active portfolio management and a well-planned divestment process.

Our Deal Advisory professionals are forward-looking specialists with a broad range of skills, deep industry expertise, and a view on the future, to help you stay in front of the issues and avoid loss of value. From helping you understand the potential risks and rewards of a divestiture to supporting you in minimising value leakage, we assess your situation and support your negotiating position to maximise the sales price and execute the deal with minimal disruption to the remaining business operations.

Our integrated team of specialists helps you focus on the key questions through the critical stages in planning and executing divestitures.

Selling your Guernsey business

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Portfolio strategy

How do I maximise shareholder value?
Exit options

What are my strategic exit options to maximize shareholder value?
Preparing for exit

How do I prepare the business for exit?
Deal execution

How do I get the deal done at the right price?
Pre-close

Am I ready to close?
Post-close

How do I capture the value created?

Partnering

Create and set-up of a new joint venture or business combination requires specialised skills in not only assessing the legal and tax environments, but also the capital market provisions in the local environment.

KPMG’s joint venture experts can support you from pre-deal strategy and partner identification through to implementation and governance to power up your joint venture or business combination. We have global resources to connect you with local relationships and knowledge so that you have a full understanding of the strategic, financial, operational, and legal implications of creating and setting up a joint venture or alliance. We also help you understand the implications of the business combination on your entire business and ensure your long-term maintenance and exit strategies are an early consideration in the creation phase.

Our integrated team of specialists helps you focus on the key questions through the critical stages from creation to operation of a business combination.

Understanding the strategy - What are the key objectives for entering into a partnership?
Options appraisal - Where, how and with whom should I partner?
Opportunity evaluation - What are the risks and rewards and is this the best way to create value?
Partnership design - What does the partnership need to succeed?
Deal execution - How can I negotiate the best deal?
Plan implementation - How should I plan for a successful implementation?
Powering up - Am I delivering a successful partnership?

Deliver, optimise or exit are stages of the life cycle that a joint venture may go through with significant challenges. To meet the objectives of a joint venture or alliance often requires close management of sensitive relationships (often across cultures and borders), in addition to the usual contractual and operating challenges of a business. Using a non-traditional, tailored approach to meet your needs, our globally experienced joint venture practitioners can help to preserve maximum value throughout the life cycle.

Our integrated team of specialists helps you focus on the key questions through the critical stages from issue identification to operating optimisation or exit.

Reviewing current status - Is the joint venture / alliance fit for purpose and delivering its objectives?
Diagnosing issues and designing solutions - Why is the joint venture / alliance not fit for purpose and what options are available to reset or optimise the business?
Developing and executing the transformation plan - What needs to be done and how do I ensure that I execute the plan effectively?
Assessing the governance and reporting functions - Are governance and reporting structures meeting their objectives?
Evaluating exit options - Is the joint venture / alliance a sustainable business or is exiting a feasible alternative?

Valuations

We invest the time required to understand the subject business. We combine our theoretical knowledge of sophisticated financial techniques with our practical understanding of capital markets. We excel when faced with complex and unusual issues. Our conclusions are well supported. Our reports are clear and concise. We deliver on time.

The result? Valuations that help fulfill the strategic, transaction, regulatory, financial reporting and litigation requirements of clients, including: