Company Acquisitions

As with company sales, there are many and varied reasons why buyers make acquisitions of businesses. Typically, buyers in the recruitment and staffing sector tend to be companies rather than individuals, who seek to acquire in order to permit more rapid growth, to create geographic expansion or to access new market segments. Acquisitions create additional and significant risk, particularly to the inexperienced purchaser.

Staffing Partners has extensive experience in assisting buyers to execute their acquisition strategies. The acquisition process in essence, can be distilled into four stages:

• Identifying the target;
• Courting the target;
• Executing the transaction; and
• Post acquisition integration.

We are able to create acquisition opportunities for our clients by carrying out exclusive searches for targets based on a specific client brief using our own research tools, our database, specialist researchers and extensive personal and institutional networks.

Our services to support our clients are end to end and typically include:

• Understanding our client's business and acquisition strategy;
• Evaluating the market place and the target universe;
• Identifying the target;
• Approaching and courting the target;
• Preparing an initial assessment of the target;
• Valuing the target;
• Designing funding structures;
• Negotiating the price and agreeing the Heads of Terms;
• Managing the due diligence process;
• Negotiations with the target throughout the process;
• Coordinating the purchase process with other professional advisors; and
• Managing the purchase process to completion.