Advisory Services

If you are seeking to acquire or merge, divest or dispose, restructure or raise capital, equitise or list, Grant Thornton Cambodia’s experienced Advisory Services Team can assist you with our wide range of consulting services. 

Lead Advisory
Careful planning and co-ordination are needed to achieve success in any business venture. With strategic advice, we help you strengthen your business by:

• Broadening your ownership base
• Raising capital
• Developing strategic alliances
• Asset recovery
• Accelerated M&A
• Management assessment
• Exit strategy services
• Strategic performance reviews
• Turnaround and restructuring
• Viability reviews

We assist you in developing effective plans and strategies with options such as mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, turnaround, divestiture, disposal or asset management. 

Business Valuations
Our Advisory Services professionals have extensive experience in business valuations. These can be performed independently or as part of your process of equitisation, listing or raising private equity. We act as a registered business appraiser and an independent expert.

We use in-depth research into the economy, the industry, “guideline” companies, and your company and utilise up-to-date, standard techniques to provide you with accurate, impartial valuations of your business and assets. We ensure the valuations are in accordance with all the local regulations.   

Transaction Support
Inevitably, most growing businesses need to consider local or cross-border transactions such as setting up a branch outside their home market or acquiring an overseas company. Our objective is to enable owners and managers to make investments with confidence by supporting and advising them at every stage.
We reduce the risk and stress of investing locally or overseas and ensure the transaction is “right” for your business.  We perform extensive due diligence that provides you with a report that comprehensively analyses the target business in the following areas:

• Historical financial performance
• Management capabilities
• Sustainability of market positions
• Market and competitor analyses
• Financial projections, including cash flows 

Project Finance
We assist you in developing a well-planned and structured approach to achieve your financing objectives for a business or investment project by:

• Raising debt and equity from domestic and international markets; and
• Advising, preparing an Information Memorandum and assistance in negotiations and managing the deal to successful completion.

In addition, we use the close relationships that we maintain with investors to achieve the right chemistry for you on an on-going basis. 

Equitisation Consulting and Listing Preparation
When you are looking to equitise, privatise or IPO, we provide assistance by:

• Preparing diagnostic reviews and equitisation action plans to international standards
• Providing accurate and impartial valuation opinions
• Recommending appropriate business models
• Producing sound forecasts and structures
• Indentifying cornerstone investors and partners 
• Providing advice on corporate and financial matters to maximise returns and help you achieve intended outcomes  

When you prepare to list on a stock exchange, either locally or overseas, we help you by:

• Grooming the company and preparing a strategy
• Preparing a prospectus that will attract the attention of serious investors and in accordance with market requirements
• Developing a listing action plan
• Performing a valuation of your company

Operational Improvement
Grant Thornton can help you to improve your business performance by addressing the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes.
We can help by analysing bottlenecks in processes, through to costing and staffing analysis. We also assist by reviewing and providing guidance to your finance function to assist them with best practice reporting and business planning.   

Succession Planning
Succession planning can be defined as the process of transferring the control and ownership of a business, however, developing and executing a succession plan is not always easy.
We help business owners and leaders understand the succession planning process, develop effective succession plans and work with them to help put this into practice.
Succession planning can include difficult decisions, including the long term role of family members in a business and identifying key leaders appropriate for the businesses future.