Buying, selling, or refinancing a business has the potential to be complex. Undertaking due diligence is important to ensure you are fully informed, enabling you to maximise value, identify, and where appropriate mitigate, financial and tax risks.

Blick Rothenberg’s Transaction Services team provides high quality with a tailored, Partner-led approach. Our tax buy and sell side due diligence and vendor assistance services add clarity, efficiency, and value to a transaction process, providing our independent view to assist your decision making.

When acquiring a business, you want to understand what you are buying and the potential tax risks associated with this acquisition. Therefore, tax due diligence is an important part of this understanding and knowing the target’s compliance around corporation tax, employment taxes and VAT and our team will work with you to identify the tax issues that are relevant to you and your stakeholders.

When selling a business being prepared and anticipating the areas of focus and tax questions that are likely to come from potential acquirers and how you will respond is key. By being ready to provide interested parties with robust information on day one, you will be able to maintain positive deal tension, reduce the disruption to your day-to-day business and maximise value. Our support will be tailored to prepare you for your specific process and subsequent buy-side due diligence. We will work with you, be that helping assess your transaction readiness from a tax perspective, considering if any pre-deal tax structuring would be appropriate, through to vendor assistance work.

The key to providing tax advice on any M&A process is the ability to cut through complex issues accurately but quickly, delivering concise messages, recommendations, or choices in a highly commercial manner.

Blick Rothenberg does just that, providing tax advice on all types of M&A transactions, including corporate acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital buy-outs, reorganisations and demergers.

We not only provide the tax advice on M&A transactions, Blick Rothenberg’s M&A Tax team provide tax buy and sell side services that add clarity, efficiency, and value to a transaction process. We are a multi-disciplinary team covering direct and indirect corporate, shareholder and employee taxation.

The M&A Tax team has more than 20 years of experience in providing advice to private equity, corporates, owner-managers, and family offices from the UK and overseas, covering due diligence and structuring on their transactions in the UK, as well as advising and assisting corporate and individual vendors with the sale process and optimising their tax position.