Operations due diligence has many benefits:
- Ensures that operational data provided is relevant and can be further leveraged in-depth to understand the operational dynamics of the business and inform the investment thesis
- Provides the right inputs towards creating a forward-thinking operations value creation plan
- Provides buy side or sell side an understanding of operational risks within the business and articulates relevant mitigation actions
- Shares a qualified outlook on how key opportunities to grow the business can be effectively executed post-transaction
- Supports in ensuring that top management from the target organisation has bought into a future robust execution plan; including prioritising of elements to be included in the integration plan
Our dedicated, highly experienced, Transaction Services team will work closely with you to:
- Define the operational scope for review within the business
- Identify operations execution & improvement scenarios that you should consider
- Model scenarios to share with you regarding upside potentials and trade-offs
- Qualify post-merger synergies and mechanisms to achieve them
- Leverage existing external benchmarks available to assess areas of improvement in performance compared to peer groups within your industry
- Bring together functional experts from your business to co-create the value creation plan
- Deliver a robust, comprehensive, operational review of the business
Our Transaction Services team advises a wide variety of clients, including; private equity, debt funders, SME’s, large and multi-national companies across a range of sectors.