At GAIA we advise companies, shareholders and corporate groups on transactions: buying and selling businesses, corporate reorganisations, bringing in investors, and structured growth. These are the decisions that determine what happens to the business, and they are worth taking with clear analysis behind them.
We structure complex transactions in a practical, ordered way. Our corporate and commercial team has the experience these matters require, and the point of view we bring is long-term: what the transaction does to the business three years out, not only whether it completes.
Buying and selling businesses
A sale or an acquisition involves far more than agreeing a price. We help you structure the process, analyse what is actually being bought or sold, and reach decisions with the position properly understood.
Each step needs to make sense on three fronts at once: commercially, legally, and in terms of the owners' personal assets. Those three rarely point in exactly the same direction, and reconciling them is most of the work.
Valuation and analysis
Before bringing in a shareholder, selling a stake or pursuing an acquisition, you need a solid basis for the decision. We help you establish what the business is worth, review its position and understand where the risks and the opportunities in the transaction actually lie.
That is what replaces an instinct about value with a realistic view of it.
Investors, restructuring and growth
Corporate transactions change more than the shareholding structure. They shape what the company is able to do afterwards.
We advise on investor entry, corporate reorganisations and growth transactions, working across the corporate, tax and accounting sides in one team. In a transaction that matters, because the legal structure, the tax treatment and the financial picture have to be resolved together rather than in sequence by three separate advisers.