A company sale or acquisition is an intense process that requires undivided attention and specific expertise. Our team takes care of each step in the process so you can focus on your responsibilities within the company. We take the initiative, but keep you permanently informed of each development because you are always the one who decides. This is how, together, we reach the optimal outcome and valuation for the deal. After closing the transaction, we remain available for help and advice.
Services
Level Next is a corporate finance advisory firm focused on guiding companies, entrepreneurs, investors and family businesses in their next step: a sale, an acquisition, a merger, a transfer or a strategic decision.
Support from start to finish
Our team consists of advisors with profound financial expertise and senior management experience. This combination of expertise is rare in the industry. It allows us to adequately position and represent your interests both from a business and a financial perspective. Clients choose Level Next because they appreciate this combination of expertise as well as the passion and integrity that we put in everything we do as an independent advisor.
Sell-side advice
If you wish to sell your company or activity, you can count on Level Next for professional guidance and representation of your interests.
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Buy-side advice
If you wish to acquire a business or activity, Level Next can assist in optimizing this transaction.
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Family transfer
Level Next offers a range of services to successfully prepare a family succession.
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Search
Do you wish to grow in a certain niche through mergers and acquisitions? Level Next can assist you in several ways.
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Financing
Are you looking for resources to finance your growth plans? Level Next can help you define and structure your financing needs.
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Neutral advice
Are you in need of neutral strategic advice? Level Next has experience in advising businesses, private equity funds and family offices across different domains.
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If you are a Flemish SME working with Level Next, you could opt for a subsidy from the SME e-wallet for certain of our services. Sell-side advice
If you wish to sell your company or activity, in stages or all at once, you can count on Level Next for professional guidance and an optimal representation of your interests.
Level Next can guide you through the entire process:
- Defining your wishes
- Discussing different options
- Screening your company or activity
- Making a company valuation
- Creating an attractive and professional information memorandum
- Approaching potential buyers and eliciting offers
- Negotiating the Letter of Intent
- Coordinating the due diligence process
- Leading the negotiations
- Offering advice when drafting the final agreements
- Communicating and following up on the transaction
Buy-side advice
If you wish to acquire a business or activity, Level Next can assist in optimizing this transaction. Level Next can guide you through the entire process or certain parts of it:
- Approaching the takeover target, anonymously or not
- Critically reviewing the available information
- Making a company valuation
- Developing a takeover bid and Letter of Intent
- Coordinating the due diligence process
- Leading the negotiations
- Offering advice when drafting the final agreements
Level Next can also advise you in securing the necessary financing for the acquisition.
Search
Do you wish to grow in a certain niche through mergers and acquisitions? Level Next can assist you in several ways:
- Analyzing the market based on desk research, diverse resources and our extensive network
- Gaining insights into potential targets, their management and the shareholders
- Elaborating a takeover strategy
- Proactively approaching potential targets, anonymously or not
If a target shows interest in continued discussions, Level Next can guide you through the remaining stages of the M&A process.
Family transfer
Preparing a family succession requires a holistic approach. It is crucial to understand the family background and the interests of everyone involved – regardless of whether they are actively involved in the business or not – in order to gain everyone’s trust.
Level Next is glad to help with all the services associated with a family succession: an overall plan of approach, a neutral valuation, fiscal optimalisation, a potential adjustment of the corporate structures, a family charter, a shareholders’ agreement, definition of KPIs to be monitored at the executive level, selecting a board of directors or advisors, etcetera.
This kind of process evolves in different stages. Level Next insists upon an honest and neutral way of working and always puts the company first, as it is the engine behind the family assets.
Financing
Are you looking for resources to finance your growth plans? Level Next can help you define and structure your financing needs based on a business plan. We can also assist in realizing the financing by approaching and negotiating with various parties.
We have experience in financing for acquisitions, mergers, leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs/-ins and start-ups.
Neutral advice
Are you in need of neutral strategic advice? Level Next has experience in advising (family) businesses, private equity funds and family offices across different domains. We act as a neutral and independent party when advising on a family succession, an evaluation of the management team, a merger or a company valuation (in case of conflicts between shareholders). We also serve in management boards where our experience in management and corporate finance can add value.
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