Corporate Finance

The proper financing structure is one of the most important pre-requisites for successful business strategy implementation. In every phase, from start-up, through expansion and maturity to restructuring or turnaround, successful companies always have an appropriately balanced asset schedule. At the same time, experience and creativity are required since today’s intelligent financing is often found not in classic bank credit but rather alternative financing options like mezzanine or sale-and-lease-back.

For and ever increasing number of medium-sized businesses, capital markets now offer an interesting alternative and private equity enhancement in the form of market listing in stocks or profit certificates. The convenience of company shares opens new opportunities for business transactions (M&A’s), successor arrangements or employee stock options. GCI follows the “IPO light” concept which enables a step-by-step, controlled introduction of the company onto the capital market.

Buying and selling company shares is a basic building block of growth and cost optimization strategies. Any change in the assets side is followed by a change in the liabilities side. Therefore, next to total management of M&A process phases including Due Diligence and company evaluation, the adaptation of your financing structure and the development of creative financing solutions are key to any company acquisition.

Our focus on Corporate Finance in our consulting activities allows us to support our clients in all company financing phases when questions arise like:

• What effect does Basel II have on my financing? Which requirements from the banking sector must I fulfill?
• How does the optimal financing structure look? What alternatives are there to classic bank credit? How interesting are private equity, mezzanine financing instruments, factoring or sale-and-lease-back as financing options for my company, which I can use ?
• What opportunities are offered by capital markets? Is my company even ready to go public? If so, what does a successful IPO look like?
• How is my company’s value increased long-term by a strategic acquisition or sale? Within what range are buying / selling prices? Of which additional implications and risks must I be aware?
• What effect do the various trade alternatives and scenarios have on my company’s success and the necessary financing structure? What happens when individual planning parameters change?