Your corporate advisory lead

Growing your business is an ongoing process, not a one-off project. In today’s climate, running a successful business requires solid planning and timely execution of strategic initiatives.

Whether you’re looking to change direction, raise capital or undertake an acquisition, disposal or merger, the decision process can be complex. You need the right support and insight at every step.

Our independent corporate advisory services offer impartial, uncompromised solutions, structures and processes, drawing on decades of cumulative experience and expertise. Supported by sector specialists and dedication to our field, we’ll help you turn strategies into realities.

We guide management teams through the expanding and complex range of potential solutions to find the best opportunities for their business.

Many of our corporate advisory team serve or have served on company boards. They understand your challenges as a board director and can offer practical and relevant insights to tackle them.

Our advice is clear and unbiased, underpinned by years of transactional experience and a passion for creating innovative solutions to our clients’ problems. A strong record of repeat business is evidence of our success. Alongside our advice, you’ll benefit from the broad range of services. S&W offers to support you through the transaction process – from financial modelling and debt advisory to tax advice. We help growing businesses manage and overcome the day-to-day operational demands that could distract them from their longer term ambitions and objectives. 

Draw on our corporate finance advisory expertise to find the right route to your business objectives:  

• Strategy development to help shareholders and management assess and implement their key growth, value creation and realisation options
• Impartial advice to provide a fresh perspective to address business challenges, often leading to a collaboration on innovative and bespoke solutions
• Assessing alternative financing solutions to deliver pivotal objectives
• Creating value through transactional activity, assisting boards and management teams with fundraising, acquisitions, business sales and succession planning. Specific services may also include building a business plan, financial forecasting, benchmarking against peers, valuations and implementing management and board incentives