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Path to Success

Conducting a successful company purchase is normally harder than you think it will be. There are some key things you can do early on to make the M&A process a lot smoother.

• Make sure you know exactly why you want to conduct an M&A activity
• Engage your key stakeholders early
• Identify some key target companies that you want to buy
• Find out how much you can afford

Fuse Capital will support you every step of the way to find the right funding for your M&A journey

Step 1

Scenario Planning

The analysts at Fuse Capital will help with the following.

• Build scenario models based on your data
• Model the impact on cash flow
• Model the impact on your P&L
• Create an M&A matrix to calculate cash on day one, earn-outs and any equity requirement

Step 2

Going to the market

Fuse Capital will go out to the investment community to find out how much you can borrow to best finance the deal. 

• Creation of an investment memorandum
• Engaging with the Private Debt community
• Finding out how much you can borrow 

Step 3

Heads of Terms

Once you know how much finance you can bring to the table you can go out and find a company to purchase. Once you have your target in sight Fuse Capital will:

• Identify the correct lender for pre and post-acquisition structures
• Update the investment memorandum with the target companies' data
• Analyse the relevant data and corporate documentation
• Integrate our financial model with the target companies' data
• Conduct a lender roadshow

Step 4

Transaction Management

Now that's the tricky bit. But Fuse Capital are expert at managing transactions and has done so for over 450 clients. For your M&A journey, we will:

• Manage the due diligence process for the M&A activity
• Manage the legal process 
• Secure the final approval from all stakeholders

Step 5

Success and drawdown

Now we have all the documents in hand we will help you complete the loan process and you can drawdown the funds.