Industries

FINANCIAL ADVISORY

Valuation of Intangibles:

• Purchase Price Allocation in M&A processes.
• Valuation of brands, patents and image rights for various purposes:
  • Financial (M&A, collateral, contracts, information).
  • Legal (infringement of rights, tax planning).
  • Strategic (Marketing and Communication).
  • Accounting (impairment test).
• Valuation of real rights: concessions, surface rights, licenses, purchase options, easements for:
  • Corporate Transactions.
  • Financing processes.
  • Legal conflicts.
• Valuation of Goodwill for corporate transactions, financing processes or legal conflicts.

Business Valuation: Valuation of companies, valuation of businesses and business plans for corporate transactions, financing processes, legal disputes, remuneration packages or feasibility studies.

Expert valuation: Independent expert opinion reports, party’s expert reports, arbitration opinions, expert opinions, expropriations, liquidations, inheritances, separations, redundancy schemes, corporate conflicts or tax purposes.

INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY

Physical inventory and valuation of tangible assets:

• Industrial, warehouse and ancillary buildings.
• Production lines.
• Machinery.
• Ancillary services (electric power, compressed air, HVAC, etc).

Floor-to-book reconciliations and asset management

Impairment tests

Asset valuations for:

• Refinancing/collateral.
• Determination of sums insured in property insurance.
• Sale and purchase in corporate transactions.
• Business combination processes (PPA).
• Analysis of useful lives/Asset depreciation policies.
• Audits.
• Accidents.
• Public aid justification.

REAL ESTATE ADVISORY

Portfolio analysis and Due Diligence: For portfolio analysis and segmentation from the commercial, strategic, financial and real estate point of view. It is used for massive valuations (desktop, drive by, statistical).

Project Feasibility Analysis, Product Definition and Business Analysis:

• Conduct of market research on any type of asset.
• Definition of the most appropriate product on a commercial basis in each situation.
• Commercial and financial feasibility of investment projects and real estate developments.
• Preparation of financial projections.

Property Management and Optimization:

• Analysis and segmentation of assets owned by companies and institutions.
• Proposal for space optimization measures.
• Analysis and optimization of costs associated with the property.

Strategic Advisory and creation of Real Estate Business Plans:

• Business SWOT analysis.
• Definition of objectives and strategic lines.
• Analysis of operational and financial implications.
• Development of the Action Plan and Financial Projections for the repositioning of the business in the mid term.

Tax impact on real estate assets and Cadastral Audit: Mitigation of the tax impact of real estate assets, which in some cases represents a considerable expense.

DUE DILIGENCE AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES

Due Diligence and Feasibility Studies are used to obtain the information prior to the signing of a contract. Therefore, it is the process by which a potential buyer evaluates one or more assets, in terms of:

• Location and current configuration.
• Ownership and occupancy status.
• Administrative and town planning status.
• Technical and normative compliance with its intended use.
• Possibilities in the future.

PROJECT MONITORING & COST CONTROL

Project Monitoring and Cost Control represents a very efficient tool for controlling the investments made by financial institutions, investment funds and developers in real estate developments. This service allows technical-financial monitoring of:

• Execution and construction cost according to scheduled project specifications.
• Developer’s legal and administrative requirements.
• Planning and advance of the real estate development.
• Financial and budgetary management of the real estate development.
• Fulfilment of objectives in terms of time and cost.

ENERGY AUDITS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Energy Audits involve the inspection, study and analysis of energy flows in a building, process or system, while Energy Certifications provide information on energy consumption and emissions, allowing to measure energy savings in terms of consumption:

• They both arise from two national Royal Decrees, by transposition of European Directives.
• Energy Certifications are generally mandatory for all buildings (there are exceptions).
• Energy Audits are mandatory for large companies, as defined by the EU.