Corporate M&A Outsourcing
Corporates
We work with companies who are seeking to expand through acquisition, raise capital or enhance the sophistication of their financial modelling capability
THE CHALLENGES OUR CLIENTS FACE
- Our corporate clients are clear on their objectives and have ambitious plans
- Alongside their CEO and CFO they will have a strong in-house operational finance team
- However, they are typically too small to justify running their own dedicated in-house M&A or business development teams
HOW WE HELP
- By partnering with Oceanrock, our clients access a flexible and cost-effective solution
- We enable our clients to do more. Working closely with the executive team, we extend the capability of their in-house team to undertake strategic analysis, financial modelling and M&A preparation
- We help bridge the gap between our clients' business-as-usual resources and their business development needs
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Our Cape Town-based team combines the commercial benefits of off-shoring with the quality you would expect from your own team
Our Services
We bring capacity to the core elements of your business:
Research & Strategy Development
Oceanrock provides corporate clients with the research and analysis required to build a deeper understanding of market dynamics and financial performance, supporting strategy development and decision making.
Explore how we support clients with their research & strategy development.
Origination
Oceanrock provides origination support to corporate clients looking to expand through M&A, including market mapping, target identification, outreach and desk-top due diligence.
Explore how we support clients with their origination activity.
Financial Modelling & Analysis
Oceanrock provides corporate clients with financial modelling to support budget-setting, develop business plans, assess valuation and capital structuring, and enhance operational decision making.
Explore how we support clients with financial modelling.
Deal Support
Oceanrock helps corporate clients prepare for fundraising and M&A, including desktop due-diligence, deal analysis, and the preparation of material to facilitate board and investor approvals.
Explore how we support clients on live deals.
Our corporate clients have a business to run alongside their ambitious M&A and business development objectives. The same core skills that enable us to support clients across private equity and corporate finance mean we are a perfect partner to these companies who need additional bandwidth to support their executive teams.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our standard contractual arrangements provide clients with either a dedicated, full time analyst resource (benchmarked at 150 hours per month); a fixed block of hours that can be utilized over time; or a team to deliver a defined project scope. Our standard contractual agreement is with our UK parent company and governed by UK law.
Our team is based in Cape Town, South Africa, which benefits from close time-zone alignment with the UK (1 hour ahead of the UK during BST; 2 hours ahead of the UK during GMT). Our team’s contractual working hours run to 6pm South African time. However, we understand that at times, when deadlines need to be met, longer hours will be required.
We take confidentiality extremely seriously. We understand that if our clients can’t trust that their information will remain confidential, then we won’t have a business. Our own employees are bound by individual confidentiality agreements in their employment contracts with Oceanrock, our standard contractual terms with clients includes both market-standard confidentiality wording and responsibility for managing conflicts of interest and our IT infrastructure reflects industry best-practice – both in terms of cyber-security and access restrictions so that only your client team at Oceanrock will have access to your confidential information.
Yes, your primary working relationship will be with one member of the Oceanrock team. This enables the onboarding process to be as smooth as possible, and consistency and efficiency to be established early in our relationship. In addition, our intention is that you also interact with a small Oceanrock team who can provide cover during vacation or sick leave, and is well-placed to provide additional support if you need to increase your capacity with our team at short notice. Critically, you will be dealing with the analysts in our team who are actually doing the work – rather than a relationship manager who sits between you and our analyst team.
Given the nature of our business, remote working has always been at the heart of what we do. Our aim is to become a natural extension of your team, which works best when there is regular and real-time communication. This can be through email, Teams, phone calls or other forms of communication that work best for you and your team.
Contact Us
Contact Oceanrock for the front office support you need to enable your business to achieve more
We provide high-quality research, financial modelling and deal support to the UK investment community. We work with private equity investors, corporate finance advisers, strategy consultants and corporates seeking additional bandwidth to support critical front-office activity.
Get in touch with us today to discuss how our team can enable your business to achieve more.