Mergers & Acquisitions

OVERVIEW

M&A SERVICES FOR COMPANIES AND INVESTORS

At every stage of the investment cycle, company leaders and investors face critical opportunities to create—or destroy—value.

Our complete suite of M&A services, from generating deal flow to improving performance to maximizing exit value, helps executives and investors make the right decisions and take the right actions, when it really matters.

INSIGHTS & IMPACTS​

INSIGHT

Introducing Axiom Holdings Divestment Preparation Programme

SPECIAL SITUATIONS: M&A & DEBT ADVISORY

OUR PEOPLE​

Jone Deo

Managing Director Chicago

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WE USE OUR DEEP INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE, WIDE GLOBAL NETWORK, AND RAPID, DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH TO IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE POTENTIAL DEALS TO UNCOVER THE HIGHEST-VALUE OPPORTUNITIES.

Industry attractiveness and sector insights

  • Perform systematic sector screening, based on extensive sector experience and research, considering trends, growth areas, developments and issues

Target identification and screening

  • Generate deals and review potential M&A transactions; evaluate transactions’ rational and value potential

Operations and IT due diligence

  • Perform implementation-focused due diligence, highlighting and quantifying opportunities, costs, execution priorities, issues, and red flags

Commercial due diligence

  • Review commercial considerations related to market dynamics, competitive landscape, customer/client feedback, growth opportunities, and risk

Management due diligence

  • Assess management capabilities and performance track record; review proposed incentives and potential impact on business deliverables

Transaction advisory

  • Provide M&A lead advisory services in buy-side situations, private equity fundraising, debt raising and refinancing, business planning, financial modelling and target investment appraisal, business valuation

Pensions

  • Provide M&A transactions advisory, including potential regulatory considerations and negotiation support

Legal & regulatory support

  • Provide regulatory and legal support, working together with partners, around antitrust issues, potential litigation, and disputes

OUR “QUICK START PROGRAM” SPANS ONBOARDING, ASSESSMENTS, AND PRIORITIZATION, AND ENABLES THE NEW ENTITY TO BEGIN CREATING VALUE AS SOON AS THE DEAL IS SIGNED.

Onboarding

  • Onboard the PE or management team and establish business objectives, incentives, and corporate governance procedures
  • Build reporting and KPI dashboards

Operational assessment

  • Conduct a “quick scan” of operations and opportunities based on the due diligence review
  • Evaluate the quick scan results alongside the investment thesis, ensuring alignment and highlighting potential issues

Setting value enhancement priorities

  • Identify and accelerate priorities
  • Highlight potential focus areas, like top-line growth, procurement, working capital and CAPEX, SG&A and IT, and manufacturing
USING OUR PROPRIETARY DATA MINING CAPABILITIES AND ANALYSIS, WE BUILD A FULL-POTENTIAL PROGRAM THAT HELPS NEW COMPANIES ACHIEVE REAL RESULTS ON THE TOP LINE, THE BOTTOM LINE, AND ACROSS ALL BUSINESS LINES. Revenue growth
  • Market and channel strategies
  • Contract bidding and management
  • Pricing and product, customer, and channel profitability
Sales force effectiveness
  • Applied analytics
  • Cash and working capital management
Cash forecasting and liquidity management
  • Working capital reduction
  • CAPEX effectiveness
Business plan development
  • Refinancing support and balance sheet restructuring
  • Organizational effectiveness
Leadership team effectiveness and organization design
  • Talent strategy and evaluation
  • Coaching for enterprise change
  • Culture transformation assessment
  • Risk and compliance management
  • Profit improvement
Operational facility performance and network improvements
  • Procurement optimization
  • Innovation and new product or process introduction
  • Overhead and support functions

THE DECISIONS SURROUNDING A TRANSACTION ARE CRITICAL. WE WORK WITH URGENCY AND A RELENTLESS FOCUS ON RESULTS TO MAXIMIZE DEAL VALUE, BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE DEAL.

Post-merger integration

  • Ensure strict EBITDA focus; assess leadership; integrate the organization, culture, systems, and processes; develop and realize synergies; provide clean room support; establish and execute PMO; buy and build support

Carve-out

  • Separate the organizations, segregate duties, establish governance structures; develop standalone financial reporting; de-couple systems and processes; separate operations; analyze and review separation costs; provide M&A lead advisory and project management

Divestiture preparation

  • Assessment of optimal divestment approach, including disposal of all or part of the business, consideration of industrial logic for potential buyers, preparing the divestiture business plan including identified profit and cash improvement measures, diligence preparation, and project management

Transaction advisory

  • Provide lead sell-side M&A advisory services, debt advisory and lender education, business planning, financial modelling, project support services, and synergy assessment

Sell-side due diligence

  • Perform operations, IT, and commercial due diligence

DEBT ADVISORY & SPECIAL SITUATIONS

When a business has to undertake a turnaround or undergo a restructuring, understanding the M&A and debt options available is vital to preserving, enhancing, or realizing value. We have a long track record of providing time-critical advice to clients on equity or debt raising, refinancing, debt restructuring, or accelerated M&A.

Our hands-on approach led by our senior professionals plus our combination of transaction, operational, and restructuring expertise enables us to identify opportunities and solutions that others cannot.

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