specialises in helping clients manage strategic risk and opportunity in investment transactions.  

We help both corporate and financier clients get the strategic investment decision right.

VEP helps corporate clients assess the risks and opportunities of their strategic transactions – be they investments, acquisitions, alliances or divestments - and of strategic alternatives in portfolio value enhancement.  We help plan how to mitigate the risks and exploit the opportunities. 

We help write backable business plans (see The Financial Times Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan: How to Win Backing to Start Up or Grow Your Business, by Vaughan Evans - details below).  These are carefully crafted to identify and address the main concerns of your backer.  They are designed to get you the backing you need for your business to succeed.

For financier clients, whether investors or bankers, VEP is one of the most experienced advisers in the UK in strategic due diligence.  Vaughan Evans, founder of VEP, has been advising private equity and structured finance clients on strategic risk and opportunity since LBOs first arrived in the UK in the mid-1980s.  He has worked with >25 private equity houses on >200 deals ranging from <$10million to >$10billion.  His experience and judgement are offered to selective private equity clients on pre-due diligence strategic screening.  And VEP advises investors and management teams on post-deal strategy and helps draw up a robust, achievable business plan.

VEP’s distinction is in its specialisation.  Not in a particular sector.  But in a process.  We assess and help manage the risks and opportunities of making the big strategic investment decision.  Having been on the other side of the table, we know what questions clients need answering prior to taking the decision.  We address these head on. 

We provide ammunition for clients to negotiate deal price and structure.  Or to walk away.

VEP helps get good deals done.

Please contact us to find out more.

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The Financial Times Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan: How to Win Backing to Start Up or Grow Your Business, by Vaughan Evans, published by Pearson Education in November 2011, priced at £14.99.

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Note: the website www.backablebusinessplan.com is currently one and the same as this site, www.managingstrategicrisk.com (also www.vaughanevansandpartners.com).