Mergers and Acquisitions

Due to the types of businesses we work with, we help numerous clients each year either buying or selling their businesses.  We are quite experienced in assisting clients with the tax and financial structures to meet their needs.  We’ve been involved in sales to Google, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, Amazon, General Mills and WebMD just to name a few.  KN+S plays a close advisory role in merger and acquisition decisions, from negotiations to due diligence to assessment of tax and working capital considerations and more.  To maximize your post-transaction outlay, we provide assistance, insight and guidance in identifying buyers, maximizing price, resolving intricate tax hurdles, managing due diligence and purchase agreement documentation and supporting owner focus.  In today’s tight credit market, finding a buyer can be a challenge.  Our expertise is broad and our resources run deep.  With the KN+S team personally involved with your attorneys and other advisors in each transaction, we make sure every element of a deal is solidly locked down.  Our audit team adopts a prospective buyer’s perspective to help identify and resolve any potential roadblocks.

Our Mergers & Acquisitions services include:

• Due diligence reports and related services
• Audits and asset valuations
• Acquisition due diligence (including multi-entity acquisitions and structuring of transactions)
• Accounting method and adjustment consulting
• Acquisition agreements
• Tax planning
• Business valuation and purchase price consulting