Buyer Representation
Hunter Wise regularly represents corporate, private and institutional investors in acquiring businesses and selected assets. These assignments include acquisition searches or client defined specific projects, as well as management buyouts.
While Hunter Wise provides a wide variety of services to our buyer clients, the activities fall into five primary categories
- Assist in developing acquisition criteria.
- Identify the primary and secondary targets.
- Initiate contact with the targets using our proprietary process.
- Assist as requested in negotiating the price, terms and conditions of the transaction.
- Raise acquisition financing, if required.
For Management Buyout clients, our services usually are much broader. These often include the following:
- Assist in formulating the buyout plan.
- Advise on alternative options should it be necessary.
- Present the buyout plan to the various stake holders, i.e. the Board of Directors, shareholders, lenders, landlords, suppliers, etc.
- Assist as requested in negotiating the price, terms and conditions of the transaction.
- Raise acquisition financing, if required.
- Orchestrate the process through to the close.