Our Private Equity practice has a long history of advising leading UK mid-market buyout and growth capital investors.  We typically work for Private Equity houses, debt providers, and trade buyers on transactions with an enterprise value of £15m-£200m, although we have also worked on considerably larger deals.

Our core service offering is commercial due diligence for potential acquisitions and investments. We can work on both the buy-side and the sell-side, with recent vendor due diligence experience on transactions up to £410m. In all cases, we seek to combine our sector expertise with our pragmatic value-enhancing approach. We aim to de-risk the deal through providing a transparent and comprehensive view of the target, usually leveraging our high-quality intelligence capability to develop practical and actionable insights.

We also provide pre-deal advisory support to assist clients throughout the process s of identifying potential targets through to securing the mandate and exclusivity. Typical services include:

• Market mapping
• Acquisition screening
• Market / Company research

We are increasingly involved in providing post-deal advisory support to assist both in setting the strategic direction for the new investment but importantly also in addressing any operational weaknesses or barriers to growth identified as part of the CDD exercise. Typical services include:

• 100-day performance improvement plan
• Strategic planning
• Merger & synergy analysis
• Bolt-on & acquisition strategy and planning
• Exit planning

Where businesses need to deal with data complexity (e.g. many products & many customers) we leverage existing IT systems and data structures to design insights that focus performance on key business drivers (see strategy & performance). 

Please visit the Sector Focus and Deal History sections of the site to provide you with a flavour of our client base and expertise.
 
PMSI is a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA – www.bvca.co.uk)