Company acquisitions

Rickitt Mitchell has, for many years, been helping its clients to acquire other companies, both private and public. We are experienced in helping to develop and refine acquisition strategies, identifying suitable targets and establishing a dialogue with potential vendors.

The first step in the process is for us to gain a thorough understanding of your own business and to discuss your acquisition strategy with you. In this way, we ensure that we can provide you with the best advice.

Following our discussions, we carry out detailed research and produce a list of possible acquisitions. Once you have agreed a shortlist of targets, we make a discreet approach to the potential vendors. We help you to value the target and formulate an offer with an appropriate structure. In our role as project manager, we co-ordinate your other professional advisers and drive the transaction to a successful completion - if that remains the best course of action.

We will also help you to raise and structure any acquisition finance which may be required. This funding may come from banking, asset finance or private equity sources or a combination thereof.

Private equity buy-side advice

We provide specialist acquisitions advice and project management skills to private equity houses looking to acquire businesses through an institutional buy-out process.

In this role, our detailed understanding of the private equity market and highly leveraged transactions is supplemented by our long experience of advising private company vendors.

Click here to view our company acquisitions track record.