Cross-Border Structuring Counsel for Home Services Acquisitions
Securities and M&A counsel for independent sponsors structuring home services transactions, from LOI to close to the capital markets that open up afterward.
An independent sponsor closing home services transactions in the $8M to $80M EV range has a defined set of moves at the Cross-Border Structuring stage. Most of them are not in a generic M&A textbook.
The typical home services platform sits at $8M to $80M EV with EBITDA in the $2M to $15M range. The thesis runs on regional roll-ups of HVAC, plumbing, and electrical operators. The cleanest home services deals close in 60 days from LOI. The mess is almost always in the licenses, not the financials.
How Cross-Border Structuring actually gets structured.
Map jurisdictional tax exposure with US and foreign counsel before the LOI.
Plan repatriation mechanics if cash is generated offshore.
Address CFIUS review where foreign capital is in the LP base.
Structure for treaty benefits where the operating geographies allow.
In home services, layer in working capital peg that survives a slow February as part of the Cross-Border Structuring workstream.
Treating cross-border deals like US deals with extra steps. Tax, regulatory, and timing assumptions break differently.
"Cross-border deals need three sets of advisors at the table from day one. Bring them."Jason Powell · Cross-Border Structuring
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
Capital after close is where the IRR actually gets made. The right introductions at month nine through month thirty are where this practice works as hard as it does at the LOI.
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An LOI on the desk, a home services target, and a Cross-Border Structuring question worth a real conversation.
Twenty minutes of practitioner-grade input from a securities attorney whose first move is to read the deal, not the engagement letter.