Our services provide clients with an optimal business structure for maximum cost efficiency. Businesses face many hurdles while planning either mergers or acquisitions, such as how they should be structured and executed. We serve as advisors during business transactions beginning with due diligence, participating in negotiations, analyzing alternatives and offers, and ending with assistance in the closing and transition between the parties. Sagent believes that high quality, authoritative advice is not merely desirable, but essential in merger and acquisition engagements.

All transactions, whether mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, or equity investments; involve complex issues that require special attention. These types of business activities become more intense when they cross international borders or involve companies with global operations, due to the additional range of considerations. Sagent assists its clientele in effectively navigating the myriad of accounting, cultural, labor, legal, regulatory, and tax issues in cross-border transactions because it is necessary in order to ensure that risks are minimized and returns are maximized. Our staff has the language skills and regional expertise to protect client interests, either as buyer or seller, in business combinations. We deliver valuable services to both financial and corporate buyers and sellers that include the following:

• Assistance with acquisition and financing agreements that best protect our clients;
• Innovative tax and accounting structures, designed to help our clients minimize tax liability and enhance earnings in the short and long-term;
• Post-merger integration activities, which assist in identifying synergies in production, as well as logistical efficiencies in the newly formed entity; and
• Transaction closing assistance that allows our clients to maintain focus on their day-to-day operations.