Mergers and Acquisitions
To acquire or sell a firm is always a decision with high stakes … and extremely risky; it requires an increasing technicality on the part of the manager’s various advisors.
Lamy Lexel ensures that you achieve the operation, at your target price, within the given time limit, in accordance with your criteria and depending on your strategic stakes
Upstream strategy
Negotiation with the target
Finalisation of the agreement
After the operation
Upstream strategy
- identification of the target to be acquired or the partner to rely on
- seller’s due diligence
- acquisition strategy: minority shareholding, joint-ventures, takeover
- choice of the mode of acquisition: goodwill, share deal, assets deal, financial restructuring …
- financial package
- structuring of the operation
Negotiation with the target
- choice of a negotiation process
- drafting of the letter of intention
- implementation of legal acquisition, social, tax, environmental audits; setting up of data rooms
- assessment of the target
- search for financial lever effects
- tax optimisation of the acquisition patterns
- negotiation on the agreement terms
Finalisation of the agreement
- drafting of the agreement protocol: terms and conditions of the transfer, asset and liability guarantees – GAP, financing…
- raising of the suspensive conditions
- closing
After the operation
- post closing formalities
- organisation of the transfer of powers, presentation
- post acquisition reorganisation, restructuring
- treatment of post acquisition incidents (implementation of asset and liability guarantees– GAP)
Your privileged interlocutors
In Lyon
Alexandre BIDEAU
Jean-Pierre GITENAY
Michel MASOËRO
Vincent MEDAIL
Patrick VERGNOLE
In Paris
