About Acquisition Solutions
Every year more and more companies undertake Mergers and Acquisitions as a means of fuelling part of their corporate growth. Yet very few companies globally have established business processes to manage the full range of activities when undertaking Mergers and Acquisitions. An even smaller number of companies have employees across all key areas of the business that have a thorough understanding of the Merger & Acquisition process. It is not surprising therefore that success rates in Mergers and Acquisitions is highly variable.
Acquisition Solutions Ltd was established by Chris Brown to enable businesses to consistently deliver successful Merger & Acquisition transactions. We provide the processes and tools to enable your business to undertake M&A activity with confidence and establish the organisational knowledge that is critical for your business to successfully undertake M&A activity.
Professional Biography
Chris Brown, BCom, CA, MBA, ACIS
Managing Director
Chris Brown is the founder and Managing Director of Acquisition Solutions Ltd. He advises companies on Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Growth and business turn-arounds. He brings a wealth of international experience having lived and/or worked in New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, USA, France, England and South Africa.
Immediately prior to establishing Acquisition Solutions Ltd he was an executive with the BOC Group Plc one of the leading global Industrial Gases companies. In his five years at BOC he held both corporate development and line management roles. His global responsibilities included; the establishment of group Merger and Acquisition processes, training the business units in their use, identifying acquisition candidates, assessing strategic fit with existing business units, due-diligence, working with line management to establish integration plans and deal negotiation. In addition Chris spent 2 years in Malaysia managing the restructuring of the Malaysian business following a significant acquisition.
Prior roles include being Interim Managing Director for ITI Energy and Strategy Director for an Australian Electricity supplier. Key activities included assessing the strategic growth options for the retail business and significant joint venture negotiations.
Chris also spent 14 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers leaving as a Corporate Finance Director in 1998. While with PwC his responsibilities included:
- Undertaking feasibility studies to support major capital projects
- Providing Strategic Advice
- Undertaking Business Valuations for vendors and purchasers
- Leading Due Diligence reviews
- Corporate Turn-arounds
- Lead Sale Advisor
Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce & Administration from Victoria University, New Zealand and a Diploma in Business Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He has an MBA in International Business from the International School of Management, Paris.
He is a member if the Institute of Chartered Accountants of NZ, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Company Sectaries & Administrators.
Wherever you are located we can give you a live demonstration of how the process works then hand over the controls so you can explore the knowledge at your fingertips.
To arrange a demonstration please fill out the form, email or telephone us.
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Chris Brown |  |
01 Mar 2007 |
Who will be the largest buyers in 2007?
Acquisition prices are at record levels and lower exit prices are being factored into Private Equity valuation models. In this environment the opportunities for financial buyers are likely to reduce and we may see corporate buyers taking a more active interest. However with a shortage of quality business available for sale and Private Equity firms needing to spend the billions of pounds they have raised, my money is still on Private Equity winning the shopping spree in 2007.
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