Ventureahead.com provides advisory services to both buyers and sellers of businesses and to those seeking strategic alliances.

Buyer Advisory

We provide comprehensive services to clients seeking to grow their businesses through Mergers and Acquisitions. We assist our clients through the entire acquisition process with the objectives of maximizing strategic value of the transaction, reducing risk and ensuring successful integration.

Our advisory services include :

• Acquisition strategy development
• Establishing the acquisition criteria
• Identifying and evaluating  potential targets
• Valuation of the target business
• Management of the negotiation process
• Structuring the transaction
• Preparation of Letter of Intent (LOI)
• Conducting due diligence of the target 
• Preparation or review of the complete legal documentation
• Advice on international taxation and double taxation avoidance issues, in case of cross border transactions
• Obtaining regulatory approvals for completing the transaction
• Assistance in post acquisition management and accounting issues

Seller Advisory

We advise clients, who wish to sell their business or make a strategic disinvestment of part or whole of their business. We like to get involved in the early stages of the process to ensure that the business is appropriately re-structured so that it can be positioned to receive the highest valuation.

We provide services to sellers at all stages of the transaction. Our services include:

• Evaluation of the business and "Clean-up" advisory
• Developing potential buyer criteria
• Preparation of  information memorandum
• Valuation of business
• Identifying potential buyers
• Negotiations with the interested buyers
• Structuring the transaction
• Assistance in ensuring  that the transaction is tax efficient 
• Review of the letter of intent (LOI)
• Guidance during due diligence process
• Regulatory approvals
• Assistance in post-sale transition

Strategic Alliances

Strategic alliances can relate to marketing alliances, product licensing, production alliances and similar relationships between businesses which seek to leverage their core competencies by filling the management gaps through alliances in the non-core areas of their businesses. Such alliances may or may not relate to one company buying equity in another business. Strategic Alliances with equity participation of the partners are termed as Joint Ventures.

Internet has led to businesses being increasingly "net-worked", making the ability to develop strategic partnerships a critical skill, especially in the case of businesses in the Knowledge sector.

Strategic partnering is a skill that most businesses will have to learn if they have to continue to grow and remain competitive in the future.

Ventureahead.com provides partner selection services. These services include the following:

• Strategic audit of the business
• Need & wants analysis of the business and its  owners
• Partner or partners' profile development
• Partner identification and selection
• Deal structuring and negotiation
• Legal closure of the transaction
• Regulatory approvals, wherever applicable.

Our goal is to structure a transaction that leverages our client's core capabilities. Our process is designed to maximize long term return for the shareholders or owners.