Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
Structured support for transactions, restructuring, and growth.
Deals go wrongin the gaps.
An information request nobody owns, a timeline nobody agreed, a number nobody stress-tested. We hold the structure around the transaction so those gaps do not open.
Who this is for:
- Buyers evaluating targets
- Founders preparing for exit or partial sale
- Groups restructuring entities or carving out operations
Where the group fits a deal.
M&A support here is advisory: objectives, structure, diligence coordination. BLK Advisory Services holds no licence and this page will not pretend otherwise. Where the group does enter a transaction is the perimeter around it: BLK Finance designs and manages alternative investment funds for professional investors, and the group’s licensed entities can answer the payments and custody questions that surface in diligence. When a deal needs a licensed adviser, we say so and coordinate with yours.
Selling a platform you built? Offshore EBITDA gets a haircut at exitWhat we do
Define transaction objectives and key value drivers
Provide structuring and commercial evaluation support
Coordinate due diligence workstreams and information flows
Support planning: timelines, checklists, and stakeholder alignment
Diligence runs to a plan, and the timeline you gave the board is the one you hit.
Typical engagement: Project-based (4–12+ weeks depending on deal stage and complexity).
Questions
Asked and answered
At what point should we get advice?
Earlier than most people do. The decisions that determine what a business sells for are usually taken twelve to twenty-four months before a process starts: how revenue is contracted, how the group is structured, how clean the accounts and the ownership chain are. Advice at the point of a live approach is advice on a position already fixed.
What reduces the price at diligence?
The recurring ones are concentration in a few customers, revenue that cannot be evidenced as recurring, an ownership or intercompany structure a buyer’s advisers cannot follow, and accounts that need explaining. None of those are valuation arguments. They are reasons a buyer discounts or retains part of the consideration.
Does BLK broker the transaction?
No. BLK Advisory Services advises. It does not custody funds and does not perform regulated activity. The corporate finance house, lawyers and accountants run the transaction; our part is the preparation before it and the judgement during it, and introductions to the firms that do the regulated work.
Do you work on the buy side as well?
Yes. The same questions run in reverse: what the target’s numbers actually support, where the integration cost sits, and which parts of the structure will need unwinding after completion.
How long does it take?
The advisory work is measured in weeks. A transaction is measured in months, and the preparation that makes it go well is measured in the year before it starts.
The first call
Talk to us about your transaction
Before the process starts, not halfway through it.
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