Our comprehensive advisory team has deep and proven experience in the M&A marketplace and serves as a valuable resource when you’re faced with ownership transitions, strategic sales and acquisition opportunities.
We combine the transaction experience of seasoned investment bankers with specialists from other key areas, such as transaction services, tax and accounting, and consulting to help optimize your M&A transaction. We help you develop effective strategies while leveraging our extensive network of deal professionals and sophisticated database and deal management tools.
We provide services ranging from consulting on specific issues to coordinating an entire transaction process. Our streamlined process involves:
Assessing client objectives, analyzing the relative values of alternative strategies and recommending tactical approaches
Targeting, contacting and negotiating with outside parties
Developing integration plans from pre-close checklists to 100-day post-close workplans, and serving as integration manager, as needed
Adding to our value proposition, clients benefit from our in-house consulting team, many of whom offer global and national firm experience. These professionals aid in the process in everything from finding the right target in the market, to performing comprehensive financial, operational and IT due diligence. Our consulting team is equipped to plan and lead integration management and help ensure your plans become reality.
Clarify guiding principles and use an acquisition methodology to evaluate targets for specific value-creating criteria.
Identify target criteria
Develop straw model profiles
Model transaction financials
Outline synergy measures of success
Look beyond the numbers of a deal to understand the longer-term opportunities and risks to value creation.
Quality of Earnings (QoE)
CultureView assessment
Operational diligence
IT diligence & integration strategy
Post-close value creation strategy & optimization roadmap
Document the value-creating synergies and then develop a plan to account for employee, process, systems and data conversion to the combined entity.
Synergy dashboard
Integration roadmap
Systems & data conversion plan
Program management office (PMO)