Buy & Sell Side M&A Real Estate Services
Our M&A real estate advisory services go beyond simple transaction support. We provide buy-side due diligence and sell-side exit strategy make-ready real estate services designed to help your company deploy real estate to reduce risk and more fully achieve its M&A objectives.
On the buy-side, we help uncover hidden risks and opportunities in the target company’s real estate portfolio, ensuring that your company will make informed decisions before closing the deal. On the sell-side, we work to optimize your company’s real estate and develop viable disposition alternatives, making your company, with or without its facilities, as attractive as possible to potential buyers.
Key aspects of our services include:
- Alignment with M&A Objectives: We ensure that your company’s real estate strategy will align with its broader M&A, financial, and operational goals
- Short Turnaround Times: We understand that M&A transactions often require rapid decision-making and quick action. Our team provides timely assessments, recommendations, and reporting to meet the tight timeframes associated with fast-moving M&A deals
- Comprehensive Reporting: We deliver detailed reports to support fairness opinions, fair value accounting, valuations, and other essential deal documentation
With Real Estate Strategies Corporation as your M&A real estate partner, you’ll have the confidence that your company’s real estate will be fully optimized to support the success of your M&A transaction.
Real Estate Due Diligence
We conduct a thorough review of the target company’s real estate assets and liabilities, ensuring that your company will understand the full scope of what your company might acquire.
Risk Identification & Mitigation
We help your company identify hidden risks related to real estate that could affect the success of the transaction and, we provide strategies for mitigating those risks.
Operational Efficiency
We assess the potential for operational duplication between your company’s existing facilities and those of the target company, and develop plans for consolidation or realignment to maximize efficiency.
Value Creation Opportunities
We uncover opportunities to enhance the value of the acquired real estate, whether through lease renegotiations, property dispositions, or other strategic initiatives.
Buy-Side M&A Real Estate Strategy
When you’re acquiring a company or part of a business, it’s essential to understand how real estate will impact the transaction and the future operations of the combined entity. Our buy-side M&A real estate services focuses on due diligence and risk mitigation, helping companies identify potential pitfalls and opportunities well in advance of completing the acquisition. We can ensure that your company will be fully aware of the materiality, risk, and opportunity that real estate presents in the context of the M&A transaction.
Our team analyzes the real estate holdings of the target company, assessing everything from lease agreements and property conditions to operational duplication and opportunities for value creation. We’ll compare your company’s existing real estate to ensure that when you complete the deal, the combined entity’s real estate will be fully optimized and positioned to best achieve your overall financial and operational objectives. By aligning real estate with your company’s broader M&A strategy, we can help you achieve operational and financial excellence in buy-side transactions.
Our buy-side services include:
- Acquisition Target Real Estate Due Diligence: When you’re ready to make an offer to acquire another company or business, you’ll need to move fast and have access to the highest quality intelligence. We’ll quickly assess the real estate portfolio of your target acquisition, whether it contains one or multiple properties, and guide you as to potential opportunities and risks
- Business & Real Estate Alignment Analysis: We’ll guide you as to how the acquiree’s real estate will best support your objectives for the acquisition
- Pre-Closing Recommendations: As a means of risk mitigation, cost reduction, and value-enhancement, we’ll guide you in advance as to which properties you may wish to exclude from the acquisition and those transactions you may wish to modify in advance of closing
- Real Estate Portfolio Integration Assessment: In preparation for completing the acquisition, we’ll assess your company’s current real estate portfolio, compare it to that of the acquiree, and develop a playbook for facility, transaction, and information integration
- Post-Closing Transaction Optimization: Once you complete the acquisition, we’ll execute on our recommendations to modify remaining transactions, consolidate facilities, and dispose of surplus facilities, to maximize operational effectiveness and achieve financial excellence
Sell-Side Due Diligence & Exit Strategy Make-Ready Real Estate Services
On the sell-side, maximizing the value of your company’s real estate is crucial to achieving the best possible outcome in an M&A transaction, IPO, or other exit strategy. Our Sell-Side Make-Ready and advisory services focus on making your company’s real estate “deal-ready,” ensuring that your company and its real estate will be optimized for disposition and attractive to potential buyers.
We can assess your company’s real estate and provide strategic guidance on how to enhance its value in preparation for the transaction. Whether you seek to dispose of leased or owned real estate as part of a sale, if you’re looking to retain certain properties, dispose of surplus assets separately from a sale, or enhance long-term value, we can provide expert advice tailored to your company’s specific goals.
Our sell-side exit strategy services include:
- Real Estate Portfolio Assessment: We evaluate your company’s real estate to determine the best course of action for the transaction and each leased or owned facility, whether it’s retention, disposition as part of the sale or separately, or value enhancement
- Disposition Strategies: We develop strategies for selling or leasing surplus properties, ensuring that your company will maximize their value
- Value Enhancement Recommendations: We can provide recommendations for improving the value of your company’s real estate prior to the sale, helping attract more buyers and secure higher values
- Transaction Optimization: We’ll assess the ability of each leased or owned facility to support the objectives of your intended transaction based on buyer type and otherwise, and will recommend advance modifications to best achieve those objectives
- Alternative Value Retention and/or Wealth Creation: If excluding properties from a sale would best enhance the offering, we’ll guide you as to alternative approaches to separate disposition of those properties, value retention, or in the case of private companies, wealth creation
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View VideoWhy Choose Us for M&A Real Estate Advisory?
At Real Estate Strategies Corporation, we bring decades of experience in corporate real estate strategy and M&A real estate advisory. Our team, led by CEO Andrew B. Zezas, a Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA)understands the intricacies of real estate in the context of mergers and acquisitions.
Our focus is also always on delivering value to our clients by aligning real estate assets with broader M&A goals. Whether your company is acquiring a business or preparing for a sale, we provide the expertise and guidance you need to ensure a successful transaction.
For expert M&A real estate strategy and advisory services, contact Real Estate Strategies Corporation today. Let us help your company optimize its real estate and achieve the best possible outcomes in its M&A transactions.