You are looking for transaction security in the context of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and public takeovers. We are the market leader in Fairness Opinions in Switzerland and look forward to assisting you as experts for capital market transactions.
Use the capital market to your advantage and benefit from our many years of experience with IPOs, Fairness Opinions and public takeovers. We provide expert opinions and support throughout the IPO process (IPO readiness, feasibility, roadmap, evaluation, equity story) to create the highest possible transaction security. As with all our M&A projects, you can expect best practices, independence and integrity to strengthen the mutual trust of all parties involved.
When assessing your IPO readiness, you benefit from our thorough analysis (mindset and awareness of the consequences of the IPO, ownership structure, corporate governance, composition and responsibility of management, internal risk and compliance management, employment contracts, etc.) and receive recommendations and a roadmap for optimizing transaction security. You can also count on us for a well-founded assessment of IPO feasibility (investor pre-sounding, early-look meetings, non-deal roadshows, group events). We carefully evaluate the expected valuation as a listed company based on the key value drivers and support you at every step of the IPO process (negotiations, etc.). You can also benefit from our expertise in refining your equity story and positioning, based on the investor perspective. We can further assist you in selecting additional service providers, such as ECM banks and legal advisors. IFBC provides its services internally with a specialized transaction and capital market team (investor pre-sounding is carried out in cooperation with investment bank).
SIX Swiss Exchange accreditation: IPO Advisory provider recognized by SIX Swiss Exchange.
As part of a public takeover bid, you want an independent and objective assessment of the financial appropriateness of a purchase offer. IFBC specializes in preparing Fairness Opinions. Alongside the necessary expertise and extensive experience, IFBC enjoys an excellent reputation as an evaluator (Art. 30 para. 6 Takeover Ordinance). IFBC has prepared a large share of the Fairness Opinions for public takeovers in Switzerland in recent years, making us the market leader.
Accreditation Swiss Takeover Board (Decision 502/01 of January 16, 2012): It is established that IFBC AG is particularly competent to prepare fairness opinions in the context of public purchase and exchange offers.
You want to makesure that the contracts for a public takeover bid meet the bidprice requirements (minimum price rule and best price rule). As part of this process, all relevant contracts between the parties involved must bescreened for significant contrasting direct benefits, indirectbenefits and consideration and the benefits must be evaluated accordingly. We are pleased tosupport you with our expertise and experience in this task.
IFBC develops your M&A strategy through dialog. Our M&A advisors accompany you as a sounding board, contributing proven methods, new ideas and an external perspective. Take advantage of our experience on the buyer and seller side as well as in Equity Capital Markets to strengthen your internal preparations and processes. You can deploy us flexibly to suit your situation — from the development of your M&A strategy to implementation of a purchase or sale transaction, transaction financing and accounting implementation.
We support private equity firms with our corporate finance expertise throughout the entire investment cycle. As private equity companies build their investment portfolio, we offer support in defining and implementing the buy & build strategy; as a buy-side advisor; with financial due diligence services; and as a debt advisor for financing. We help develop portfolios with value enhancement concepts and portfolio valuations. After all, we are experienced sell-side advisors who can successfully implement a sales process tailored to the specific situation. With our comprehensive sector expertise in the area of clean energy transition, we can also comprehensively support our private equity clients in this massively growing global market.
The global M&A organization “Globalscope Partners” is led by entrepreneurs and has been active in the mid-market for more than 35 years in the areas of buying, selling and financing companies.
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