Doing Deals Differently
At Cortus, we’re more than just a business; we’re your partners in success. Our approach is simple. We deliver professional services across the deal life cycle with a commitment to collaboration, honesty and agility, priding ourselves on exceeding your expectations.
Strategic Support from Acquisition to Exit
Our independent and highly experienced team provides a full-suite of M&A services designed to unlock value and deliver results.
Deal origination
- Acquisition strategy
- Market mapping
- Target identification
- Sector insights
- Valuation guidance
- Scenario modelling
- Direct targeting
Buy-side support
- Deal structure preparation
- Offer and negotiation
- Funding options
- Financial and Tax Due diligence
- Synergy assessment
- Sale and Purchase Agreements
- Completion Accounts review
Value creation & strategy
- Post deal integration
- First 100 day planning
- Strategy assessment
- Operating model optimisation
- Working capital and cash management
- Turnaround and restructuring planning
- Refinancing Due Diligence
Sale preparation
- Exit strategy
- Optimisation for sale
- Financial model build
- Buyer search
- Marketing materials
- Separation planning
- Dataroom preparation
Exit
- Process management
- Vendor Due Diligence
- Vendor assistance
- Offer evaluation
- Negotiation
- Sale and Purchase Agreements
- Transitional service arrangements
- Deal origination
- Buy-side support
- Value creation & strategy
- Sale preparation
- Exit
“Really appreciate your help on the deal. We were really happy with Cortus and glad we
got to work with you after a couple of false starts! We look forward to working with you on another deal soon.”
Investment Director, Beechbrook Capital
“Cortus undertook financial due diligence on a recent new investment. The process was efficient through focusing on the key issues and taking a
pragmatic and commercial approach. We’d be very happy to work with the team
again on more opportunities in the future.”
Andy Thomas, Partner, YFM Equity Partners