Mergers & Acquisitions Services

Cohen & Co., as a resolutely specialist boutique, intends to have their clients benefit from their senior investment banking expertise in their specialties, their thorough knowledge of the European, African and Israel markets and their players, their professional rigor as well as their independence vis-à-vis the major banking structures. This approach aims to constantly ensure value-added, hands-on approach and customized services, and deliver on our assignments objectives.



Cohen & Co. offers its clients a complementarity of senior experiences unique on the market of independent boutiques, with regard to corporates capital transactions (disposals, acquisitions, buy-outs, capital raising, strategic alliances, and related transaction services) in particular as regards strategic buyers from the US, the UK, and Europe.

 

This is why in particular Cohen & Co. has been able and continues to advise on a repeat basis World top 10 multinationals on an exclusive advisory fully fledged retainer and success basis regarding select and off-market acquisitions in Europe and in Africa which Cohen & Co. excels in originating in a totally proprietary and bilateral manner.



Cohen & Co. offers its customers, be it small business owners or executives of large companies, a senior expertise in M&A and strategic advice, particularly in France, in Europe, in Africa and in Israel, within insurance and financial services (insurance and brokerage, insurtech, asset management, banking, and other related services) and a selection of other sectors.



Disposals and Strategic Alliances 

These operations are most often crucial ones for owners. Cohen & Co. offers its customers to fully outsource their disposal process under the best standards of market practice in order to optimize preparation, process, and proceeds. 

 

Acquisitions

Cohen & Co capitalize on thorough local European and Israeli market knowledge and wide scope networking capabilities to offer original initiation and target identification capabilities. We benefit from extensive experience in deal negotiation, modelling, structuring and closing, acquired specifically in the Insurance and Financial Services sectors, but also across a wider span of other sectors at their prior investment bank career positions which included Consumer/Luxury Goods, Hospitality/Real Estate, Internet & IT, Healthcare, Retail and Distribution, and Manufacturing.

Cohen & Co. proposes, in particular, their clients to fully outsource under exclusivity their targets search process, proactively and opportunistically tackling a local market on their behalf. Cohen & Co. indeed believes this particular focus to be a determining factor in the accelerated success of an external growth policy.

Other Corporate Finance Services
Cohen & Co. also provides services in capital raising, private placements, financing search, LBOs, MBOs and OBOs, valuation of companies, validation and/or drafting of business plans, pre-IPO advisory, etc.

 

Cohen & Co is equally positioned to offer strategic and implementation consultancy on strategic partnerships with a capital element, and more generally tailor-made advisory and corporate finance services upon demand.