SPA assistance
Whether you are selling a business and want to achieve a clean exit at a predictable price, or buying a business and want appropriate remedies in place if the target’s financial position is not as expected, the financial terms of the Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) are key.
Who we are
As the first among the big four firms to offer a dedicated, merger & acquisition based SPA service, we can provide you with a significant advantage in the deal process. With a team of full-time specialists based within our due diligence practice, we advise buyers and sellers across a whole range of industry sectors, geographies and deal sizes.
What we do
We advise our clients on the cash accounting aspects of SPAs. Working closely with the core Deloitte team and your lawyers, we identify commercial issues early and ensure these are appropriately reflected in the SPA so that they can be converted into real value.
How we can help
The SPA team assist clients in developing contractual solutions to accounting and commercial issues identified by the core M&A team and can help you if you are:
- Proposing or reviewing a purchase price adjustment mechanism;
- Dealing with a “locked box”;
- Pondering the impact of “cash and debt free”, “target net assets” or “earnouts”;
- Agreeing net asset or normal working capital targets;
- Considering the financial definitions for inclusion in a transaction contract;
- Reviewing completion accounts and determining appropriate accounting definitions as well as accounting aspects of warranties and indemnities;
- Setting the accounting policies and definitions for the completion accounts;
- Reviewing or drafting Accounting warranties and indemnities.
We can help to ensure the cash implications of due diligence are properly effected in the SPA, not ignored or misunderstood by other parties and their lawyers.
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