Valuation dedicated to accounting and financial reporting

• Purchase Price Allocation,
• Impairment tests,
• Intangibles assets (trademarks, patents, customer relationships, etc.),
• Share based payments (such as granted shares, shares options)
• Investment portfolio (ie AIFM directive).

Independent valuation in transactional contexts

• Fundraising (pre-money valuation, dilution impact, etc.),
• Reorganization of share capital,
• Portfolio rationalization

Valuation dedicated to tax issues

• Special benefits (management package, additional financial entitlements, etc.)
• Transfers of assets
• Legal or tax restructuring

Buy-side:

Due Diligence

On behalf of our corporate or institutional clients, our team takes in charge the identification of all the financial risks linked to the transaction in order to lower post acquisition issues (price adjustments, earn-outs etc.). Depending on your needs our work may be limited to the review of an electronic data room, the analysis of the target’s market or to the single review of its business plan.

Sell-side:

Vendor Due Diligence

Because anticipation is the key in a disposal process, Squareness can take in charge the identification of the risks of the company or business you want to sell as well as the analysis of the historical performance, in order to both produce a Vendor Due Diligence report and anticipate the questions the potential investors may have.

Business plan and/or cash flow modeling

For instance: financial modeling and cash forecast within the framework of take-over bids

Independent Business Review

Revue des prévisions de trésorerie et d'exploitation dans le cadre de mandats amiables ou de procédures collectives

Financial reporting settlement and / or review of the management control

• Set up of a targeted reporting
• Adaptation of the key processes needed
• Automation of production processes

Financial services optimization and internal control review

• Management process of the accounting and financial organization
• Organisational audit of the accounting and financial functions throughout personal interviews
• Target organisational chart
• Definition of the reorganization steps, writing of job descriptions
• Internal process review

Legal and Tax restructuring (financial aspects)

• Simulation of the restructuring impacts (accounting, finance, management, cash flow, forecasts etc.)
• Assets and liabilities carve-outs from an activity or a business unit