Mergers and Acquisitions

Client: Alpha Landsteinar Limited, a UK based company with subsidiaries in Ireland, the Middle East and Singapore. A company with 60 employees, they were focused on supplying Microsoft Navision based turnkey solutions mainly to the retail sector. In the year ending 30.6.04 Alpha Landsteinar generated PBT of £0.59m.

Atlanta assisted the management in preparing the company for sale and the disposal process began in March 2004. A sale to K3 Technology Group Plc was completed in October 2004 for a total consideration of £7.2 million.

Client: Vesys Limited is a UK based software company with CAD products for electrical wiring in the automotive sector.

They signed a sell mandate with Atlanta International on 25th October 2004 and a sale to Mentor Graphics Corporation in the USA was completed on 2nd. December 2004

Client: Dbi Consulting Limited is a company providing sophisticated, high level, consultancy services mainly to Government and Local Authorities. In the year ending 31.12.04 they had a PBIT of £0.7m.

The company had been actively marketed by another M&A company for most of 2004 but they failed to find a buyer.

Dbi Consulting signed a sell mandate with Atlanta International on 17th January 2005 and a sale to Enterprise Plc was completed on 17th March 2005. The total consideration was up to £12 million with an initial consideration of £7.5 million.

Client: A company in the Health Sector that is launching a new product suite contracted Atlanta International to work with the Board of Directors for seven months in 2005 to assist them with product positioning, hiring key management, preparing a funding plan and facilitating introductions to key customers and third party vendors. A member of Atlanta’s staff served on our client’s Board during this time.

A Sample of CURRENT Disposal Assignments:

  • a £4million revenue software company in the retail sector
  • a software solutions company in the Wealth Management sector
  • a consultancy company in the Defence sector
  • a software company based in Greece who have European wide solutions in the Health Sector
  • a solutions company in the Educational services sector
  • a high level consultancy company in the Finance sector
  • an eLearning company focused on the Finance sector