Miles Advisory Partners provides corporate financial and strategic advice to mid-market companies who are undergoing or planning a change in business structure or ownership.

We adopt a disciplined, systematic and results-driven approach to managing complex corporate transactions, and can tailor our services to your exact needs.

Our senior staff use their extensive experience in business divestments, mergers and acquisitions, and debt re-structuring, to deliver the right outcomes for your transaction objectives.

We offer the following specialised services:

Business Divestments

Miles prides itself on designing a sale process that maximises value for our clients and have an extensive track record of successfully completed transactions. If you are considering selling a company or business division, we can assist you with the following:

  • Evaluation of financial and strategic alternatives
  • Advice on which sales processes and methods will maximise value
  • Preparation of an information memorandum (IM) or other sales materials
  • Research, identification and contact with qualified acquirers
  • Sale negotiation and closing
  • Management of the due diligence process

Mergers and Acquisitions

Miles services clients who are looking to acquire or merge with a specifically identified business, or alternatively grow through strategic acquisitions.

We provide a number of specialist services to assist with mergers and acquisitions, including:

  • Identification and evaluation of potential acquisition targets
  • Valuation analysis
  • Evaluation of financial and strategic alternatives for the acquisition structure
  • Sale negotiation and closing
  • Debt advisory (if required)
  • Management of the due diligence process

Management buy-outs and buy-ins

Whether the existing management seeks to acquire a large part or all of their company, or an external management team wishes to acquire a company and assume the management role, Miles can provide the following services:

  • Review of target business including risk identification and mitigation
  • Transaction structure design for management and investors
  • Preparation of an information memorandum (IM) to solicit interest from debt and equity providers
  • Negotiation with current owners
  • Management of completion and settlement

Debt AdvIsory

Miles provide in depth knowledge and understanding of the debt markets, underpinned by an extensive network of contacts within banks and other financial institutions. Our Debt Advisory services range from the strategic analysis of the capital structures available and typically include

  • Securing leveraged finance to support acquisitions
  • Detailed financial modelling and credit assessment
  • Advice and execution resource to facilitate the approach to finance counterparties
  • Negotiation of lenders' proposals and finalisation of detailed terms and conditions; and
  • Co-ordination with the client’s legal advisers to ensure successful completion.
  • Managing covenant waiver and reset negotiations, facility extensions and amendments, new money requests and debt buy backs 

Strategic reviews and Re-structuring

With extensive experience in corporate finance re-structuring, we play an active role in negotiations with equity holders and debt holders to re-structure existing debt and equity obligations, as well as other corporate liabilities.

Additionally, we conduct detailed business analysis to assist Boards, executive management and shareholders in assessing the opportunities facing their businesses. This analysis can include the evaluation of:

  • Business plans
  • Capital and liquidity needs for both debt and equity
  • Long-term financial projections and scenario analysis