Lead Advisory

American Appraisal extensive experience with our clients M&A teams throughout the world provides a unique understanding of our client’s needs enabling us to offer more tailored corporate finance solutions than boutique houses that may not have the same level of in depth knowledge. Our global network also allows us to offer our clients unrivalled knowledge of, and access to, acquisition targets and investment capital all over the world.

Our clients operate in a wide range of industries and geographies, we have recently worked on a number of high profile assignments in the following areas:

• Bid defence - including pre-emptive work which can be based upon internal strategic plans or purely publicly available information
• M&A Advisory - exclusive sale side or buy side mandates with appropriate retainers and contingent fee arrangements
• Supporting sponsors or Nomads in the capacity of value focussed business analysis during public or private share offers
• Due diligence support for Private Equity houses, being experienced in the specific requirements of this class of investor

Our work

Understanding our clients intimately allows us to highlight potential deals that are more likely to be successful at enhancing shareholder value. American Appraisal’s experience of performing thousands of business valuations annually enable us to assess acquisitions that address the value drivers required for any business. American Appraisal consultants, both in the UK and across our network of global offices, have skills across all industries and extensive experience of business valuation and applying business valuation and share valuation techniques including.

We have played a key role in both complex and more straightforward transactions in recent years, including:

• Technical due diligence and valuation for the acquisition of a tube manufacturer by a US Private Equity fund
• Technical due diligence for a midmarket chemical firm
• M&A advice to the board of a European car manufacturer divesting of its sports-car division
• Sell side advice for a European Government
• Buy side advice for a major chemical company
• Sell side advisory for a major Pharmaceutical firm
• Sell side advisory for a major Utility firm
• Sale mandate for a marketing services business
• Pre-transaction due diligence and valuation for a multi-national insurance company looking to purchase a European business
• Pre-transaction advice for a software security company prior to its sale to a global IT group
• Buy side due diligence to a sovereign wealth fund looking to invest in real estate

American Appraisal consultants are active in:

• the ICAEWs Corporate Finance Faculty
• the EVCA and BVCA

We are happy to talk through your requirements and see where we might be able to help. Please feel free to contact one of our experts.