This is the work of running an acquisition or disposal through to close, keeping the deal, the diligence and the stakeholders moving in step. You bring someone in when a deal is live, the team is stretched, or the process needs someone who’s driven one before to hold it together.
When to hire an external consultant
A deal is on and your team can’t run the process on top of everything else it owns.
You need someone who’s executed acquisitions before to coordinate advisers, diligence and the timeline.
It’s a carve-out, a buy-and-build or a structure you haven’t done, and you want experience in the seat.
Typical activities
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Running the deal process end to end: workstreams, advisers, timeline, the critical path.
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Coordinating diligence across finance, commercial, legal and tax so nothing falls between them.
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Building and steering the valuation and deal model as the picture changes.
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Managing the negotiation support, the SPA points and the issues that move value.
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Setting up the handover to integration so day one isn’t a scramble.
Our members specialised in this service come from investment banking, corporate finance and M&A boutiques, PE, and Big Four deals. We look for people who’ve closed deals as the one holding the process together, and who keep a dozen moving parts on track without losing the plot.
“I like the pragmatic, fast and relatively cost effective way Sweav enables NewPort to get in flexible support on deals and value creation.”
“The Sweav member played a key role in the success of our exit. He quickly set up the dataroom, structured the financials clearly, and handled buyer questions with speed and precision. His proactive mindset and ability to seamlessly plug into our team made a real difference throughout the process.”
