Mainsheet is a recognised leader in successfully selling businesses and maximising their sale value. We describe the business and its future potential comprehensively, and then target the right potential buyers with a compelling investment and value creation proposition.

Our services include:

• Entire sale process management
• Information memorandum development
• Future growth forecasting
  
• Commercial issue management
• Business valuation
• Buyer identification and screening
• Sale and purchase agreement commercial drafting
• Sale negotiation and completion

Having the right capital structure is critical and Mainsheet’s senior team are experts at designing the optimal structure considering the business and its situation. Designing the optimal capital structure requires a technical review of the sources, applications and variability of cash flow as well as understanding the desired growth funding, dividend policy and risk appetite.

Our services include:

• Cash flow variance analysis
  
• Liquidity ratios review
  
• Risk appetite assessment
  
• Capital profile and cost scenarios
  
• Growth and dividend balancing
  
• Capital structure scenarios
  
• Covenant implications assessment
  

The Mainsheet team has successfully conducted a large number of capital raisings across different industry sectors and varying business sizes. We are well connected to the venture capital, private equity, high net worth and family office investor communities in Australia.

Additionally, we have developed a network of investors in Asia and the US who have an appetite for Australian opportunities. Our success has been achieved by learning about different investors and knowing how best to position specific investment opportunities to them.

Our services include:

• Current capital structure review
  
• Capital raising approach (amount, purpose, price)
  
• Future growth forecasting and positioning
  
• Business valuation
  
• Information memorandum (or prospectus) preparation
  
• Potential investor targeting and engagement
  
• Due diligence management
  
• Investment negotiation and completion
  

Mainsheet has considerable experience in providing strategic debt refinancing and capital structuring advice. We understand the funding challenges, in both growth and downturn markets, and have long established relationships with the major banks and alternative financiers both in Australia and overseas.

Our services include:

• End-to-end debt refinancing management
  
• Independent capital structure review
  
• Optimal capital structure design
  
• Expert financial forecasting and modelling
  
• Debt raising document drafting (information memorandum and term sheet)
  
• Debt raising ‘tender’ process management
  
• Legal and accounting input coordination
  
• New debt facility negotiation and completion
  

Valuation is a central consideration in all merger, acquisition, divestment and capital raising transactions. Mainsheet’s senior team have extensive business valuation experience and Dr Steven Bishop is recognised as one of Australia’s foremost corporate valuation experts.

Mainsheet offers different types of valuation approaches depending on the circumstances including the net present value of cash flows, a multiple of earnings and realisable asset valuations.

Our services include:

• Independent expert valuation
• Valuation model development
• Standalone business valuation
• Synergy or restructure valuation
• Regulatory valuations (tax consolidation, price allocation, impairment, etc.)
• Strategy project and capital investment valuation