Akio Capital is a leading investment consultancy with extensive expertise in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for clients. We provide senior-level service and attention on all transactions, large and small. Our bankers have relationships with thousands of client companies and financial buyers—and the ability to identify the most likely and best-suited parties to a transaction.
– Pre-sale assessment, complete overview of present activities and evaluation of growth opportunities
– Creation of strategy and project planning
– Due Diligence, confirming information material
– Final negotiations and contract preparation
– Assistance in post transaction advisory
– Formal administration and closure of deal
Buyside & Sellside Transactions
Industry knowledge and transaction experience can make all the difference
There’s no substitute for an advisor who has the combination of in-depth knowledge of your industry and M&A tactics and strategies. If you’re anticipating selling your company or buying a business, our industry-focused professionals can provide invaluable insights.
We have experience helping potential buyers and sellers
- develop and formulate M&A strategies.
• identify, screen and initiate discussions with potential acquisition targets.
• structure and negotiate transactions.
• arrange acquisition financing.
Leveraged Transactions
Helping you navigate the intricacies of leveraged transactions
Our team’s interdisciplinary approach allows us to move quickly when evaluating the most effective way to address complex, highly leveraged situations. We employ our M&A expertise and knowledge of capital markets to navigate these situations, and we often assist in raising the capital necessary to complete these transactions.
Fairness Opinions
comprehensive analyses and unbiased opinions regarding the financial fairness of your transaction
We help business owners, boards of directors, special committees and companies fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities—providing them with comprehensive analyses and unbiased opinions about the financial fairness of pending transactions. Our intellectual rigor and wide-ranging financial expertise position us as a trusted advisor and advocate for clients worldwide.
We’ve been valuing companies and their underlying securities for decades, in some of the most complex situations, and in virtually every type of change-of-control transaction, including:
- Affiliate and insider transactions
• Related-party transactions
• Spinoffs
• Synergistic mergers
• Transactions involving competing offers
• Down-round financings
General Advisory
Listening, advising and helping you enhance shareholder value
We provide companies with an array of general financial advisory services, including a review of strategic alternatives and other short- and long-term programs to help enhance shareholder value. During our evaluation, we may review a company’s:
- Portfolio of businesses
• Capital structure
• Dividend policy
• Strategic alternatives
• Other related issues
Often we play the role of a sounding board for the company, the management team, the board of directors or the independent committee as they fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities within a public or private enterprise.
Takeover Defense
Careful analysis—and expert advice—to bolster your position
Often, retaining an advisor well in advance of a takeover offer is the best defense. We advise public companies that face takeover offers or activist shareholders who have expressed certain intentions toward the company. Our takeover defense specialists carefully analyze a company’s defensive profile.
Backed by our leading M&A and valuation practices, Akio Capital is an excellent partner for companies confronting takeover defense issues, especially in this era of enhanced shareholder scrutiny and focus on corporate governance.