Financial Advisory Services

Enterprises facing critical investment decisions for building their market share, redesigning their strategic and operational activities or defending a market position need professional impartial advice, independent from financing sources.

Financial Advisory Services can provide valuable insights into how companies can grow and enhance their shareholder value, and comprise of Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, Restructuring and Reorganization, Mergers & Acquisitions and Transfer Pricing. A professional advice can extend to turnaround strategies for under performing companies, support throughout a transaction life cycle and a response to security related matters.

Our services can support clients through a transaction from corporate strategy to post-merger integration, help under-performing companies in turnaround situations and in rebuilding stakeholder confidence, and assist in protecting the reputation and integrity of their businesses.

The advisory services offered under this division comprise:

Corporate FinanceTop

Our experienced professionals and staff together with their commitment to service quality, help clients to obtain cost effective financing as per their needs and volume of the transaction. When providing corporate finance advice, they consider without any prejudice, a broader range of financing options rather than favoring one product, market or source.

Corporate Finance services include advice on financing, mergers and acquisitions to quoted, unlisted and private limited companies in the private and public sectors; divestitures; structured and project financing; leveraged buy-outs; initial public offerings; privatization; and valuations.

The services provided under corporate finance are but not limited to:

  • Mergers, acquisitions and disposals
  • Reconstruction and reorganization
  • Valuations and due diligence opinions
  • Project financing
  • Financial advisory services
  • Public Offering sponsorship and advice

 

  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Reconstruction

    • Advise clients on strategy for mergers and acquisitions, disposals, divestitures, leveraged and management buy-outs and other business arrangements and reconstructions.
    • Advise clients on procedural aspects of the aforementioned business reconstructions and restructurings.
    • Advise clients on procedural and logistic aspects of initial public offerings, offers for sale, rights and bonus issue etc., including drafting various applications, coordinating with various agencies and other allied activities;
    • Joint venture structuring and negotiation

 

  • Valuation

    Provide clients with independent valuations, fairness opinions, pricing analysis, bid support, shareholder value initiatives, reorganization and restructuring valuations, valuations for mergers and joint ventures, valuations with respect to intangibles, and tax and accounting allocations.

  • Financing

    Provide a broad range of advisory services in connection with major projects including risk assessment, financial modeling, reviewing financial projections, commercial and contract strategy, and the structuring and arranging related finance.

  • Debt Advisory Services

    Advising the corporations, institutions and sovereign organizations on the structure of new debt issues, refinancing of existing obligations and debt market opportunities and conditions.

  • Acquisition Finance

    • Advising on and structuring of acquisition finance for all types of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts
    • Advice on refinancing of acquisitions to replace short-term financing with more efficient long-term financing from banking or capital markets.

RestructuringTop

In case where an organization or entity is performing below its expected rating, there is seldom chance to make a quick fix of the problem. The management may need to make fundamental changes in direction, alter business structure, remove or rebuild components and inspire confidence. The professionals at Rahim Jan & Company in these situations provide Restructuring services which normally include:

  • Turnaround:

    Examining the root cause of under performance and formulating a strategy through operational and/or financial restructuring and preparation of a financial model

  • Stabilization:

    Providing hands-on assistance in cases where the survival of a company is threatened

  • Liquidity investigations and workouts:

    Assessing the cause and extent of the liquidity problems of a company to enable its lenders to make decisions regarding their current and future lending strategies

  • Management and organizational assessment:

    Identifying the key weaknesses and gaps in the management and organization structure of an under performing company.

  • Pre-lending review:

    Providing an independent opinion on the ability of a customer to service new debt

  • Security reviews:

    Performing an independent assessment of assets of businesses offered as collateral

  • Outsourcing assistance:

    Advising lenders on tools for effective monitoring of restructuring packages and generally providing them with out-sourcing assistance in the area of monitoring financial and operational performance.

Restructuring also provides advice and assistance to insolvent companies, their creditors, and other stakeholders in winding- up the affairs of an insolvent company and act as a liquidator.

Transaction ServicesTop

Transaction Services offered by Rahim Jan & Company include advisory support for mergers, amalgamations, acquisitions, reorganizations & reconstructions. Services range from assisting in corporate strategy, pre-deal evaluation, business integration planning, deal structuring, and comprehensive due diligence to post-acquisition integration support.

The services include:

  • Pre-Deal Evaluation
  • Due Diligence
  • Structuring
  • Contract Assistance
  • Transaction Integration
  • Privatization Assistance

 

  • Pre-Deal Evaluation:

    This first phase of due diligence is typically undertaken prior to making an approach or offer or before detailed due diligence is possible. Our role includes:

    • Carrying out a quick appraisal of the target, identifying key risk areas and potential deal breakers
    • Assessing the target’s strengths and weaknesses against industry benchmarks
    • Evaluating the potential investment in the context of the client’s existing businesses.

  • Due Diligence:

    The process includes gathering, analyzing, and interpreting financial, commercial, and legal information. It may also include a review of past and current trading patterns, financial projections, markets, products, customer base, competitive position, asset management, cash flows, taxation, human resources, and accounting and information systems.

  • Structuring:

    We have dedicated resources in both tax and financial deal structuring. Structuring assistance on the tax and accounting options typically include:

    • Analyzing the acquirer’s current position and commercial objectives
    • Investigating the most favorable accounting and tax options
    • Advising on available tax deductions.

  • Contract Assessments:

    Contract assessments involve commenting and advising on the financial aspects of draft sale and purchase agreements and on related completion issues. Our work typically focuses on the:

    • Structure of price adjustment mechanisms
    • Scope of accounting warranties and indemnities
    • Mechanics of the completion accounts process
    • Form of any dispute resolution process

  • Transaction Integration:

    By analyzing the future company in terms of mission, competitive strategy, management model, organizational structure, operations and IT infrastructure, our professionals help clients uncover hidden integration issues long before the finalization of deal. Our post-merger implementation services can enhance the client’s ability to achieve the transaction goals by focusing on preserving, realizing, and creating value.

  • Privatization Assistance:

    The range of transaction services offered by Rahim Jan & Company in respect of divestment of government’s interest and transfer of management rights in state owned enterprises (SOE) can help meet the requirements of the government and interested parties in achieving their respective objectives.

Litigation SupportTop

Forensic accounting applies accounting, financial, and business skills to the investigation of alleged fraud and the resolution of commercial and legal disputes. It includes expert witness services, fraud investigation, asset tracing, fraud risk management, agreement vetting/completion accounts, dispute resolution and revenue recovery.