Funding:
Cantwell Consulting has aided clients in securing funding from both institutional and private sources to complete the purchase of assets. We have a clear understanding of the steps necessary to secure finance and work with clients to maximise their success in securing finance.
We assist with:
- Asset valuation
- Company accounts review
- Cash-generation analysis
- Budget determination
- Bank negotiations
- Securitisation
- Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) advice
Completed: Autokey House
The project involved negotiating on behalf of the tenant to purchase the property from the landlord (in receivership).
Cantwell Consulting set up the appropriate structures to facilitate the application of senior debt and private equity. We negotiated the terms of the finance, dealt with all property issues and security queries and managed the acquisition process from start to completion.
Budget: Confidential
Completed: 2018
Acquisition and Disposal:
The essence to a successful property transaction is preparation. The interplay of structure, title, return on investment, tax management, finance and expectation must be reviewed. We advise clients at either side of a property transaction by:
- Determining a brief
- Agreeing a strategy with optimum legal and financial structures
- Engaging with financial institutions and negotiating facility agreements
- Identifying Investment options
- Carrying out due diligence
- Managing relationships with other professionals, such as legal representatives, architects, engineers and financial institutions
- Overseeing the negotiation process
- Supervising acquisition/disposal process
Completed: AIB
Private Client requested a low risk property backed investment. Cantwell Consulting identified and agreed specific Investment Parameters with the client. Appropriate asset then sourced and purchased.
Project Completed: 2018
Planning and Development:
We assist clients in analysing the potential value that can be added by increasing densities or considering alternative uses. We can provide desktop costing at the early stages of the process without absorbing the costs of multiple building consultants. The process usually involves:
- Review of client requirements and objectives
- Provide assessment of assets
- Advise on assembly of a project team and fee structures
- Conduct due diligence on sites
- Review planning and timeline issues associated with scheme
- Physical inspection of issues such as services, infrastructure and ground conditions
- Development and tracking of project master programme
- Management of planning and statutory approval stage
- Advise on procurement routes and options
- Manage tender stage, contract negotiations and contract award
- Site assessment and site analysis
- Cash-flow analysis
- Advice and input on development agreements, agreements for Lease and tenant / end-user requirements
- Manage handover of completed property to tenant’s coordination of tenant fit-out works
Completed: Lidl Drumcondra
The project required assembling a number of properties and securing planning permission for a multi use building ; comprising a restaurant, coffee bar and 3000 sq m food retail store over 3 levels on 25/27 Upper Drumcondra Road.
Cantwell Consulting acquired the property, assembled the design team , developed the plans in consultation with Dublin City Council and the client and managed the application through Dublin City Council.
The property was sold with the benefit of full planning permission
Budget: Confidential
Landlord and Tenant List
A huge financial consideration for SME’s after staff is rent and rates. We provide guidance in negotiating new leases or renegotiating existing leases at review/renewal. The process usually involves some or all of the following steps:
- Determine existing lease parameters/new lease requirements
- Source, inspect and screen all available properties to identify the property that meets the client’s needs
- Schedule of condition
- Advise on rent reviews
- Provide financial analysis and physical assessment of suitable properties
- Manage commercial negotiation concerning leasehold obligations
- Co-ordinate legal process to formalise lease terms
