VD&P is an independent corporate finance boutique offering professional M&A services in the Belgian mid-market..
VD&P, organised as a partnership, has been involved in more than 200 professional transactions since the start in 1995.
VD&P is the Belgian member of the international AICA network.
In addition, VD&P also has a subsidiary specialising in mediation for smaller SMEs or for companies that are looking for a more open search for potential buyers / investors. VD&P Overnamepartners contains numerous anonymous profiles of companies that are currently searching for a partner or buyer.
VD&P provides following services:
Business-economic and financial analysis and evaluation;
Valuation, from a transactional perspective;
Identification, also internationally, and selection of possible counterparties (sellers, buyers, investors…);
Elaboration of transaction proposal and transaction structure, both financial and non-financial aspects;
(Guidance in) negotiations;
(Coordination of) due diligence;
(Guidance in) the elaboration of legal documentation.
Financial and legal guidance in attracting financing, both from financial – formal and informal – as from more strategic partners;
In addition to capital, also corporate bonds whether or not tied-up capital through warrants or a conversion option…;
Public operations (IPO, delisting…) on the non-regulated markets such as the Free Market and Alternext of Euronext Brussels.
(Des)investment analyses, feasibility studies, business plans…;
Financial projections, budgeting, cash planning…;
Valuation;
Set-up of information systems for reporting, cost quotation / pricing and performance measurement;
Optimisation of the company’s working capital;
Management of the financing mix, including financing and credit files;
Guidance of companies in difficulty, among others for companies under the Belgian law on the continuity of companies and relaunch after bankruptcy;
Elaboration and follow-up of succession regulations (families);
Elaboration and follow-up of participation plans for personnel and management;
(Re)structuring of the company’s patrimony, optimisation of group structures…;
Management and follow-up of real estate and other non-operating companies, including possible direct debit;
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