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Financing acquisitions and the next stage of growth
Connect acquisition and growth plans with bank and fund financing, private capital and international markets, and compare the routes that fit the business.
Building business value before a transaction
Strengthen earnings, reduce dependence and make performance easier to demonstrate, with an ongoing advisory plan built around your business.
How InvestEU shapes acquisition financing
InvestEU can improve access to finance for eligible business transfers and growth investments. Understanding the financing route, transaction purpose and product conditions matters before support is included in an acquisition plan.
Before you take a business to market.
A practical preparation agenda for owners: align the desired outcome, explain the financial story and build a process the business can sustain.
What makes an acquisition strategic?
Translate acquisition ambition into a testable case: the capability required, the economics of ownership and the work needed after closing.
Working capital and the purchase price.
Why the amount an owner receives can differ from the headline valuation, and how to prepare for the discussion about normal operating funding.
Choosing the next chapter for an owner-led business.
Family succession, management ownership, an external sale or a continuing shareholding: compare the choices against the owner's objectives and the business's needs.
Preparing for a cross-border acquisition.
A practical agenda for acquiring across European markets, from local commercial logic to diligence coordination and the first months of ownership.
From enterprise value to the amount shareholders receive
A practical guide to cash, debt and working-capital adjustments, with an illustrative bridge from the headline valuation to equity value.
Earn-outs, rollover equity and deferred consideration
How three common deal structures change the timing, certainty and control of a seller's proceeds—and the questions to resolve before accepting them.
How much acquisition debt can a business support?
Build a financing plan around cash generation, repayment obligations and downside liquidity—not just an earnings multiple.
Bonds, bank debt or private credit?
Compare funding routes through cash flow, repayment terms, flexibility and the complete cost of capital.
Convertible bonds: the cash and ownership trade-off
Understand conversion premiums, dilution and settlement before treating a convertible as inexpensive debt.
Why the exchange and market segment matter
Compare Nasdaq, Euronext and Vienna through investor access, market rules and the responsibilities after admission.
Capital positions: rights, risk and control
Understand what changes when you sit in the structure as an owner, lender, preferred investor or issuer.
DSV / Schenker: funding the acquisition and the integration
A completed logistics acquisition illustrates the difference between cash consideration, equity value and the capital needed after closing.
Siemens / Altair: buying capabilities, then making them work together
A completed industrial-software acquisition shows why strategic fit, financing capacity and integration need separate tests.
Schneider Electric / AVEVA: what full ownership changes
The acquisition of AVEVA’s remaining shares illustrates how ownership structure, cash consideration and operating autonomy interact.
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