Business Success Through Mergers & Acquisitions

Achieve Your Desired Mergers & Acquisitions Outcome Quickly & With Certainty

Making Your M&A Transaction As Seamless As Possible

Succeed At Every Step Of Your Merger & Acquisition Transaction

Business re-configuration takes on many forms through an M&A process. This applies to divestments, acquisitions, mergers, restructures or preparation for listing / sale.

Our experience shows that many initiatives fail to reach their desired outcome within the first 5 years – and business success criteria (expectations) are then adjusted. However, the dynamic business environment means these transactions are now more frequent.

To succeed, you must respond faster and will lower risk. Our proven methodology gives you predictable outcomes through all phases of the process – from pre-deal due diligence and planning through to end-state embedment of the target organization.

We will build you a proven M&A technology team, or provide your team with proven tools and methods to achieve success in a planned and predictable manner.

Your business can focus on business continuity during the deal and transforming and winning as a post-deal outcome

Merger & Acquisition Technology Objectives

Reduce Time To Success

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Our experience shows that technology consolidation must occur within 12-18 months from the deal.

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Accelerate the systematic process of discovery and migration using a proven methodology and affordable, secure, premier tools.

Decrease Transformation Risk

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We reduce your risk through a combination of our expert team and proven tools.

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Discover and move all your digital assets in a planned manner, including relevant permissions – to your new digital destination

Collaborate For Success

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The familiar Microsoft Teams (integrated with the rest of the Microsoft Office365 experience) allows effective collaboration.

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Consolidate and re-organise various workspaces, with appropriate openness and controls on MS Teams, to accelerate your collaboration and enhance business success.

Planning, Due-Diligence & Implementation

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Secure, intuitive Data Room

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Modular, proven planning and implementation process

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Migration process which applies all discovery and planning

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Assurance and governance (or integration with your M&A governance forums)

Embed and Complete The Transformation

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Regular, day 1 and post- day 1 communications packs

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Service management process for migration and post-migration

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On-boarding and continuous learning service

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Ongoing Service Desk and managed service offering

How We Can Help At Each M&A Stage

Your M&A decisions need to align with your current and future business and growth objectives. It might sound straightforward, however, the uncharted territory which M&A transactions come with, opens up organisations to unforeseen processes and considerations that can be the difference between achieving the desired outcome

Assess & Document Your Current Technology Environment

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Known your technology – What you have, how you measure up & what you’re missing

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Mitigate the perceived risk – Predictability & simplicity

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Scope your entire environment – Including value & supply chains

Carrying Out A Risk & Opportunity Assessment

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Determine whether technology approach, application & spend is aligned with business objectives

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Obtain an understanding of the real risks and opportunities presented by the current technology approach

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Benchmark against contemporary environments and approaches

Preparing Your Organisation To Exit (All or Part Of)

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Building intelligent hypotheses which qualify the risks and opportunities in the market as well as identify strategies and approaches (scenarios) for carving out or offboarding your entire business platform to an external entity

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Setting up well structured data room to ensure compliance & security needs are well considered

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Representing offboarding companies to organise and participate in investor presentations. We match organisational content, so a meaningful, secure dialogue can be had by both parties

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Structure an effective due-diligence approach and respond in a timely and in-depth manner to all requests for deeper insights

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Assistance in qualifying costs & risks through a report validating each

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Providing IT schedules to be included in the Purchase Agreement as well as Services to be included as Transition IT Services

How To Prepare Your Organisation To Receive An Entity

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Building an intelligent hypothesis which qualifies the risks and opportunities of the target organisation as well as identify strategies and approaches (scenarios) for receiving the entity into your organisation

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Setting up well-structured data rooms (technology and processes), to assist the target organisation on your behalf

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Representing prospective investors to organise and participate in investor presentations. We match organisational content, so a meaningful, secure dialogue can be had by both parties

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Present you with a report, which has adequate detail for you to be able to establish costs, risks and approach to absorbing the target entity into your organisation

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Assist you in validating the costs and risks, so you can decide how to approach the BAFO and any negotiations

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Providing IT schedules to be included in the Purchase Agreement as well as Services to be included as Transition IT Services