Mergers & Acquisitions

D5 Capital has extensive experience of helping agency and consultancy owners find successful exits via outright sale or management buy out by the succession management team.

Over the past twenty-five years, the D5 Capital team has managed trade sale mandates for over fifty companies and have helped arrange the sale or IPO of several businesses in which they have held founding and early stage stakes.

Preparing a company for sale is a very precise process which fundamentally drives how a business is managed in the preceding years. Advice at this stage of a company’s development can add substantial value to the ultimate exit transaction.

Many company sales benefit from the careful building of price tension, so the management of an auction is generally recommended. D5 Capital has extensive experience of the psychology of the auction process and the possible methods for achieving optimum valuations, including earn-out structures. In particular, the team is expert in the sale of marketing services agencies and consultancies: advertising, content marketing, CRM, data services, digital services, social media, market research PR and other specialist marketing services disciplines.

We can handle the entire sales process

• Information Memorandum

• Identification of buyers & contact programme

• Auction management

• Due diligence advice

• Deal structure

• Negotiation of the Sale and Purchase agreement

• Completion