Corporate Advisory Services

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The term ‘Corporate Advisory Services’ is an umbrella term that includes specialized advice rendered to corporation by professional advisor investment bankers, practitioners in accountancy and law and other such services providers.


There are several areas wherein a company requires a specialist advice before initiating particular business plan.


These could relate to the initial feasibility studies on proposed plan, market survey, costs assessment, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions with other business partners, restructure of its operation and so on.


Most of the time, such transactions need to be initiated through proper discussions and negotiations. Therefore, there is perceived need for a specialist intermediary to be catalyst in identification of other party to proposed transaction.


Corporate advisory services encompass a wide range of specialized advice rendered to a corporate body such as company or a corporation. These services not only relate to a wide range of corporate objectives but they also necessitate a multi-disciplinary approach as well.


These services are rendered by the variety of professional. Investment banker is one of major professional. Investment banks and other financial services companies possessing merchant banking licenses. The core advisory services provided by investment banks and merchant banks relate to business advisory, restructuring advisory, project advisory, Merger and acquisition advisory and government advisory.


The expertise that investment banks lend to such services areas is needed from the deal making perspective rather than regulatory angle. While some full service investment banks retain their legal and accounting professionals in their organizations so as to develop the complex expertise within, most of them also work with outside professionals on assignments so as to benefit from their complementary skills.

In such a cases, the company that gives the mandate to an investment bank also hires legal and accounting professionals who offers such expertise in vetting the legal, tax and accounting aspects of the deal made by investment bank as well as in documentation thereof.


With the help of their global reach and knowledge of business environment, the top line investment banker is placed in the position to provide expert advice on the business potential, market segments, regulatory issues and financial modeling for the proposed investment.
 
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