Mickey Bove

Mickey Bove is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting. He is a member of the Forensic and Litigation segment and is based in Johannesburg. Mickey is the Transaction Services leader within FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance practice in South Africa.

Mickey is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has over 20 years’ experience in providing M&A due diligence services to clients. He has been involved in many significant due diligence assignments working for both strategic and financial buyers (local and international): including buy side and sell side services, working capital and cash flow reviews and profit forecast reviews.

Mickey has also assisted clients with other M&A services that include: feasibility studies, financial modelling, capital markets and stock exchange compliance work. He has worked on varied transactions in the following sectors: Private Equity, Energy and Natural Resources, Retail and Consumer Markets, Automotive & Industrial, Telecoms and Technology, Real Estate.

Mickey also worked on several cross-border assignments in the following countries: Nigeria, Namibia, Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia. Listed below are a number of recent transactions which Mickey was directly involved in as a leader in providing the above services:

• Undertaking buy-side financial due diligence of Boxmore Plastic for Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH’s acquisition;
• Undertaking buy-side financial due diligence of the Flexibles business of Astrapak for RPC Group’s acquisition;
• Undertaking buy-side financial due diligence on Safaricom for Vodacom;
• Undertaking buy-side financial due diligence on Little Green Beverages for Ethos;
• Undertaking buy-side financial due diligence on Stillwater and Aquarius Platinum for Sibanye;
• Undertaking sell side services on the sale of Brandcorp and Kevro for Ethos;
• Undertaking sell side services on a media company;
• Providing vendor assist services to clients in the mining and steel industries;
• Undertaking the working capital review for the directors of a mining company that listed on the JSE;
• Undertaking stock exchange compliance work for a number of JSE listed clients (in real estate, mining, financial services, consumer markets etc.) in the role as Reporting Accountant Specialist.