Mergers and acquisitions advisory
Our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory team provides strategic advice and execution assistance to support clients through complex M&A transactions.
Our process
The StoneX M&A team provides corporations, financial firms, and institutional clients with tailored guidance on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic capital decisions.
Our M&A advisors support clients through the transaction process, helping evaluate strategic alternatives, prepare for market, assess valuation, structure transactions, coordinate diligence, and navigate negotiations through closing.
What we do
Our M&A advisory team delivers strategic guidance and execution capabilities across the entire range of mergers and acquisitions.
We collaborate closely with clients to manage complex transactions with accuracy and insight, providing:
Buy-side advisory
StoneX offers buy-side support across the acquisition process, from identifying opportunities and conducting market screening to advising on valuation, negotiations, diligence, and closing.
We use market trend insight to help buyers evaluate strategic fit, company objectives, and growth potential.
Sell-side advisory
Our team offers representation and guidance to companies and financial sponsors aiming to sell their businesses. We specialize in handling complex transactions and assisting sellers in achieving optimal outcomes.
From preparing and positioning businesses to facilitating introductions to potential strategic and financial buyers, and managing negotiations and the execution of sales, we ensure that our clients' strategic goals are accomplished through a favorable transaction.
Independent board advisory & special committee support
We provide corporate boards and special committees with guidance on carveouts/divestitures, recapitalizations, spin-offs, go-private transactions, share buyback advisory execution, and restructuring initiatives aligned with client objectives.
Transaction structuring & negotiation
Our expertise is in designing deal structures that optimize financial, legal, tax, regulatory, and operational results while mitigating risk and increasing shareholder value.
Our process includes negotiating terms, identifying financing opportunities, and creating an optimal framework to achieve desired transition outcomes.
Sectors & clients served
StoneX provides M&A advisory services to companies across diverse industries, including:
- Technology
- Telecom
- Digital infrastructure
- Industrials
- Food and agribusiness
- Real estate
- Media
- Entertainment
- Energy
- Gaming
- Technology
- Telecom
- Digital infrastructure
Capital markets and capital allocation integration
Investment banking
StoneX's investment banking team provides investment banking, corporate finance, and capital market solutions tailored to clients' capital and strategic needs.
Equity capital markets
As an M&A advisory firm and part of StoneX's institutional network, our practice draws on broad equity capital markets investment banking experience.
Our team provides investment banking solutions and objective advisory services to help clients execute growth strategies and secure capital to fund business objectives.
Debt capital markets
M&A decisions often intersect with financing strategy, debt capacity, and capital structure. StoneX's debt capital markets capabilities can support clients as they evaluate financing alternatives for acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and other strategic capital decisions.
Drawing on debt advisory investment banking experience, market insight, and investor relationships, our team supports domestic and cross-border transaction considerations.
Client-first focus
Our team provides strategic planning and advisory services to support clients as they execute growth strategies and seek the capital required to fund their business objectives.
Why StoneX for M&A advisory
M&A advisory built for complex decisions
StoneX helps clients evaluate, structure and execute M&A transactions with senior-level guidance across valuation, preparation, diligence and negotiations.
Innovative capabilities
Our technological capabilities combine client-first service and advisory expertise with our global network and capital structure perspective to support complex transactions and identify opportunities for clients.
Commitment to outcomes
StoneX's M&A advisory team is focused on helping clients move strategic transactions forward. Whether advising on transformative mergers, strategic acquisitions, or divestitures, we focus on execution, disciplined guidance, and long-term client objectives.
FAQs
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Reach
With access to 40+ derivatives exchanges, 180+ foreign exchange markets, nearly every global securities marketplace and numerous bi-lateral liquidity venues, StoneX’s digital network and deep relationships can take clients anywhere they want to go.
Transparency
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Expertise
From our proprietary Market Intelligence platform, to “boots on the ground” expertise from award-winning traders and professionals, we connect our clients directly to actionable insights they can use to make more informed decisions and achieve their goals in the global markets.
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