We work closely with clients to understand the future strategy and direction of their business; coupled with our vast commercial awareness we are able to offer a service to handle acquisitions, expansion or disposals - helping to ensure that you adopt the most suitable strategy.

You may wish to finance the growth of your business through capital or debt financing. We can advise on the most suitable capital structure, the types of finance available and the best sources for each.

Corporate Finance
Raising Finance
Business Valuations
Due Diligence

What does Corporate Finance mean?

Put simply, corporate finance focuses on a business’ strategic planning issues, in particular, the acquisition and disposal of businesses, management buy-outs and buy-ins, flotations and the raising of capital.

Advice on business acquisitions - management buy-ins/buy-outs
Commercial negotiations - buying and selling businesses
Commercial negotiations - business start-ups
Financial restructuring and asset finance
Forensic accounting and litigation support
Company investigations

Due Diligence

The Clear & Lane audit team also provides Due Diligence services for mergers and acquisitions.

Due Diligence work involves the preparation of a detailed report on the target company. Each report is individually tailored to your requirements to give you an independent and expert picture of your potential investment. The information gathered is crucial to the negotiation process.

Due Diligence is strongly recommended and has been found to be invaluable for many of our clients.

We work closely with management and other legal advisers to provide our findings within the often restricted timescales required in major deals.