SERVICES

Corporate Financing

Our Corporate Finance team can help businesses at every stage of growth and change.

We understand the complexity of acquiring, restructuring or disposing of a business. Meer & Co. work closely with our clients undergoing such development phases and offers sound advice. Our services can be tailored to a specific transaction or offer a fully integrated service.

We work effectively with other external advisers who are party to any transaction in which you are involved to extract the best possible outcomes for your business. We have extensive experience in working with a diverse range of transactions across various business sectors.

TYPES OF Corporate Financing SERVICES

1. Mergers and Acquisitions

We work with clients to implement their transactions in the best way for commercial, financial and tax purposes.

2. Tax Structuring

We provide tax due diligence alongside innovative, bespoke tax advice around transactions, structuring deals in the most effective way for tax purposes.

3. Valuation Services

We can provide clients with a valuation service to fit the requirements of the situation.

Mergers and Acquisitions

We work with clients to implement structural transactions to optimise your commercial, financial and tax interests.Whilst we appreciate that every transaction is unique, we can help to either acquire, merge or dispose of a business at the right time, for the right price and for the right reasons. Meer works closely with clients to achieve their aims.

Management Led Transactions

We have considerable experience working on Management Buy Outs, Buy-Ins and Buy-In Management Buy Outs (‘MBOs’, ‘MBIs’ and ‘BIMBOs’). We work closely with clients to construct solid, credible business strategies to acquire businesses and undertake strategic planning to achieve future business success alongside your teams.

Disposals

Business owners will at some stage always have to dispose of their business in some form. This could be anything from the passing down of the business to a next generation to a full trade sale. Every disposal situation is unique and we adapt our service to meet the requirements of every situation. Extracting value from an owner managed business can be challenging. Our advice is linked with innovative tax structuring ideas to help owners achieve what they deserve.

Tax Structuring

We provide due diligence on your present tax arrangements, plus innovative, bespoke tax advice around transactions, so you can structure deals in the most effective way for tax purposes.

We advise our clients on the tax implications of their proposed transaction from a business and individual perspective. We support clients throughout the implementation of their transactions to maximise their tax efficiency.

We can offer expertise and experience in transactional work for owner-managed businesses and detailed knowledge of taxes, including Corporation Tax, CGT (shares and securities legislation), VAT, Stamp Taxes and PAYE. Meer & Co. always take a proactive commercial approach and will utilise expert and specialist skills in all areas of services we provide.

types of Tax Structuring

1. Tax Due Diligence

We research all the tax implications for any proposed transaction, mitigate risks for clients and identify opportunities to improve their tax position. Our due diligence for tax can be for a single service or form part of an integrated service with other aspects of transactions.

2. Tax Structuring

Tax structuring of any business transaction is vital and can significantly affect the outcome for businesses and their owners. An understanding of both sides of a transaction is key in structuring a deal which will work commercially and provide the best possible tax outcome.

3. Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) / Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme(SEIS)

We have extensive experience and expertise in advising clients looking to raise capital under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (‘EIS’) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (‘SEIS’). We can advise on the structure of capital raises and the EIS and SEIS tax rules from both the company and investor perspectives.

Valuation Services

We can provide clients with a valuation service to fit the requirements of your situation.

Valuation Services

Businesses often require assistance concerning the value of their business for tax or purely commercial reasons. We can provide clients with a detailed valuation service to fit the requirements of your situation. We have considerable experience in dealing with HMRC where required.

Our service can be linked to our more comprehensive corporate finance and transaction services, where a valuation is often undertaken as part of a transaction process.

Funding Advice

Every business typically requires some form of financing, be it traditional bank lending, equity injection, crowd-funding, or otherwise. Meer has experience in assisting clients raise finance and can tailor our service to fit your specific situation.