Foreign Investor

If a capital increase or share sale will be made by obtaining resources from local or international strategic or financial investors;

Determining the target investor type,
Making financial projections,
With the completion of strategic planning;

Preparation of information document,
Conducting negotiations with investors and signing a letter of intent with the investor candidate selected from among the alternatives,
Preparation of the data room,
It consists of the steps of preparing a sales and/or partnership agreement.
HERMESS Management Consulting Trading & Finance, one of the leading consultancy companies in the field of foreign investors, with more than 10 transactions we have realized and the unique experience of its partners and analyst team with more than XX years of experience in total, by creating the most accurate investment strategy with detailed studies with partners and more importantly, , by protecting the interests of the partners at the highest level, carries out the sale to the foreign investor.

Public Offering

Securities markets, which have become increasingly deep and institutionalized in recent years, have highlighted the public offering as a good alternative for many companies. Very successful public offerings were made in Turkey, and after the IPO, the market performance reached very satisfactory levels in many cases. The fact that our partners have worked in the public offerings of both large and medium-sized companies enables us to provide high value-added consultancy services in this regard.

For your company to have a successful public offering process;

Preparation of the company for public offering,
Management of the brokerage firm’s meeting and selection of the intermediary institution,
Ensuring that the public offering document is prepared in a quality that will maximize the value of the company,
Taking an active role in investor meetings,
Ensuring that the public offering value is realized at the highest level,
Ensuring that stocks are purchased by the right investor profile,
Keeping the price performance at a satisfactory level after the public offering,
Establishment of the investor relations department and similar issues,
Fora Finans will contribute to the process with its long-term experience in public offering consultancy.

Company Purchasing

Company acquisition can be in the form of vertical integration by acquiring customers or suppliers, or it can be in the form of competitor acquisition.

In addition, an alternative to investing in a new sector that attracts attention in order to reduce the business risk of our customers with high cash generation capability is also evaluated.

If a purchase will be made;

Determining the characteristics of the target company,
Determining the target company,
Signing a letter of intent
Examining the financial and operational data of the target company,
Identification of the law firm for legal review,
bidding,
After the steps such as share purchase and preparation of partnership agreement, the purchase process is carried out.
Financing package service is also provided regarding the purchase.

Debt Financing

Contrary to popular belief, capital is not a costless resource.

The capital that the partners put into the company has an opportunity cost, an alternative return, and the partners give up the return by putting this capital into the company.

In today’s accounting systems, this cost is not reflected in the financial statements and leads to errors. debt financing; It is a financial resource that companies should use, since its cost is less than capital and it eliminates the need for resources in case of capital inadequacies. Naturally, it is important to optimize costs and manage risks well.

Debt financing consultancy includes our consultancy services on financing instruments under various titles, among them:

Business Finance: Business loan
Project Finance: Project loan, leasing, etc.
Trade Finance: Commercial credit, factoring, forfaiting, murabaha, etc.
Corporate Finance: Financial bills, bonds, Sukuk, VDMK, etc.
Acquisition Financing: Specially structured loans to be used in company acquisitions
Project steps in debt financing consultancy services:

Examining the company’s historical financial data, creating the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements together with the basic operational data, where necessary corrections are made.
Review of the company’s short- and long-term strategy.
Preparation of income statement, balance sheet and fund flow statements for 5-7 years.
Determining the most accurate financial instrument, maturity structure and cost matching.
Conducting negotiations and signing agreements with financial institutions.
Credit Configuration

Businesses may fall into debt repayment difficulties for various reasons. Factors such as a sudden crisis environment, unexpected loss of assets, unexpected loss of customers, and managerial crisis may cause your company to have difficulty paying its loan debts. In this case, the most basic rule for the business to survive is to give the business the opportunity to work by structuring the existing debts of its creditors. Contrary to popular belief, creditors also prefer this way.

Regardless of the reason, in case of any trouble with the creditors, the financial consultancy service that the firm will receive is of great importance for a healthy business life.

The point that should be emphasized here is that no creditor wants the debtor company to fall into a situation where it cannot fulfill its obligations. At this point, it is aimed that the debtor company will be able to repay its debts with an improvement work to be done.

Debt restructuring consultancy is possible with the presentation and acceptance of a sound business plan to the creditors. This presentation must include the current situation, why you are in this situation, and a realistic repayment/debt reduction plan. Required steps:

due diligence; a due diligence study, which will be done without delay, is carried out to reveal a realistic analysis of the current situation. For this, the operational and financial data of the past years are examined by our experts and determinations are made.
Preliminary interview; Preliminary interviews are held with creditors to determine intent and first steps. The aim will be to enable creditors to approach this situation calmly and constructively.
Business plan/Long term financial plan preparation; A realistic business plan/long-term financial plan is prepared to get out of the current situation. Such a business plan, together with the cash and repayment projections that the company will generate from its activities in the next 5-7 years; if necessary, asset sale etc. It also includes proposals to reduce the nominal debt amount through methods.
If the business plan requires a fresh resource request, it can also be included.
Collateralization, cost and maturity negotiations are made with the creditors.

Strategic planning

Our Strategy Audit service is designed especially for companies that are growing fast, diversifying business lines, and wanting to create their short and long-term strategies with experts and make financial sense even if they have taken sufficient steps in terms of human resources and processes.

At the end of this study, suggestions will be presented on the improvement works required to use your limited resource, your capital, with maximum efficiency.

These studies result in a significant increase in the value of the company and our customers want this study to be repeated every year.

Every company has a strategy, even if it is not formed by structural processes. In countries like Turkey, where company growth rates are high, it is very beneficial for institutions to make short and long-term strategic evaluations at regular intervals.

The experience of our managing partners over many years and in a wide variety of sectors will also be very useful for your company in terms of strategic evaluation and/or validation of the current situation. The steps of this study:

Collection and evaluation of financial (balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement) and operational data (determined according to the company at the first meeting) for the past 5 years,
Evaluation of human resources, R&D, production technology, marketing, sales, after-sales services, operations, finance, accounting, purchasing and senior management departments in terms of human resources, processes and competencies,
Creation of the company’s integrated strategy document together with the managers, detailed analysis of short and long-term goals and what needs to be done to achieve these goals,
Estimating the operational variables in the light of the content of the strategy document, revealing the investment needs and as a result, creating the 5-year pro forma income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements,
Based on the balance sheet foresight, analyzing the capital and debt needs likely to be required by the company and drawing up a corporate finance roadmap (capital increase, foreign partner search, public offering, bond issuance and other alternative borrowing methods).
Budget & Financial Planning

One of the most important financial functions your company should have is budgeting and financial planning. Although this is an important discipline, especially for fast-growing companies, it is often not included in the day-to-day activities of companies.

After examining the financial and operational results for five years to the past, together with our budgeting and financial planning services, the results of 12-36 months that we will choose with you forward will be estimated on a monthly basis, and the results of 5-7 years will be estimated on an annual basis, and basic financial and operational statements will be produced. At the end of each month, budget assumptions and realizations will be compared and the budget will be updated. The steps of this study:

3 years of operational and financial data into the past are converted into standard formats and analyzed and trend analysis is performed. In other words, sales and other operational figures are examined; income statement, balance sheet and cash flow parameters are determined and trends and cause-effect relationships are revealed.
How the determined trends will change in the coming short (12 months) and long (5-7 years) terms is determined as a result of detailed studies with the management. In these discussions, operational data (sales, price developments, worker wages, raw material and general production costs, inventory turnover, purchasing and payment terms, borrowing costs, capital increases and dividend payments) are determined and income statement, balance sheet and fund flow statements are produced; the company’s ability to generate cash and pay off debt / need to borrow or capitalize is determined.
Necessary training is provided for the company to update this work on a monthly basis without the need for support.
If requested by the managers, our partners can also participate in the budget work at certain intervals.

Configuring the Finance Department

As we mentioned above, in most businesses, finance/accounting departments function as departments that are limited to filing mandatory tax returns and do not produce the financial information required by the management. It is seen that these departments are not able to fulfill the analysis and foresight functions that top managers need most. The Financial Department Configuration consultancy service includes change management to ensure that these departments are restructured and become forward-looking, not backward-looking departments.

Providing consultancy services for the analysis of Human Resources and, if necessary, the strengthening of the manager / support staff
Supporting the analysis of information systems infrastructure and, if necessary, changing it
Establishing the budget infrastructure
Establishment of Strategic Planning infrastructure
Designing management reports
Making Corporate Finance planning (Determining the amount of Capital + Credit + Commercial Debt)
Providing training studies for the creation of the Strategic and Financial plan and its monthly updating.