Leading or working alongside a client’s investment or commercial bank KLC can:

• Pro-actively identify corporate acquisition opportunities
• Review industrial logic of the proposed acquisition
• Develop the most effective steps in the acquisition or defence strategy
• Advise on tactics and negotiations
• Identify and consider potential stakeholder issues
• In acquisitions, identify potential counter-bidders
• In defence, identify appropriate counter-bidders and alternative means of maximising shareholder value
• Consider valuation/pricing issues
• Review financing issues including, but not limited to bankability and staple finance
• Assess the viability of deal contingent swaps – commodity, Forex and interest rates
• Review key documents by way of a sanity check
• Advise against conventional wisdom simply to “do a deal”