As a critical part of clients’ overall growth strategies, we work closely with management to grow their businesses through acquisition strategy and mergers and alliances. Our pre-acquisition target screens, commercial due diligence and business valuations are typically followed by our post-acquisition and merger analysis and implementation support. In other cases we provide M&A transaction support in hostile takeover and defence battles, and Private Equity due diligence and transaction support.
Strategic Acquisition Growth
Strategic Acquisition Growth involves a deep understanding of the competencies and strategic assets of the core businesses, the structure and dynamics of your market place and the value that is likely to be created by acquisitive growth compared to organic growth or, indeed, market growth via strategic alliances and collaboration.
Our work involves:
- Acquisition rationale and search criteria
- Target searches and screens
- Competitive due diligence
- Business modelling and sensitivity and scenario analysis
- Business risk analysis
- Business valuation and simulations
- Competing bidder analysis
- Divestitures.
M&A Transaction Support
M&A transaction support can involve both strategic and ‘financial’ acquisitions where we provide specific assistance in the deal evaluation process. Another situation for transaction support arises during a hostile bid process or a hostile defence where we typically work along side the investment bank, private equity and legal and accounting due diligence teams. We also assist clients in business disposal and sales reviews:
- Competitive due diligence
- Valuation of the target
- Market research, reviews and analysis
- Market and financial modeling and simulations
- Market and competitive reviews for sale and disposal transaction support
- Hostile target and defence analysis and support
- Merger analysis and support
- Private equity due diligence and transaction support
Strategic Alliances, JVs & Collaboration
Strategic Alliances, JVs and Collaboration represent multi-firm coordination among rather than single firm control of the decision-making entity. Nevertheless, a strong understanding is required of your market’s structure and dynamics, customers’ needs, and of your capabilities and competencies to contribute to an alliance or JV.
Complementary to organic and acquisitive growth, our work involves:
- Strategic rationale and growth options
- Market and industry structure and dynamics
- Segment and market life cycles
- Target screening and evaluation
- Sources and composition of business value
- Value chain analysis
- Alliance due diligence and support.
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