Integration & Divestiture

We specialise in guiding our clients through seamless post-merger integration to fully realise the benefits identified during the due diligence phase. Our approach is well-proven, adaptable, and grounded in pragmatism.

These are the key steps that that characterise our approach:
 

• Integration scoping: We kick off post-merger integration with a thorough integration scoping process. This entails defining a clear integration strategy and approach, identifying key stakeholders, determining the scope of the integration team, assessing your company's infrastructure and processes, and importantly, building a shared consensus on the integration's vision and principles. This foundational step ensures alignment and sets the stage for a successful integration journey.
• Integration planning: Our next step is integration planning. We design a robust programme structure and governance, develop synergy cases and implementation solutions, identify critical day one processes, construct a detailed day one go-live plan, and prepare the integration director. This meticulous planning phase lays the groundwork for a seamless transition and minimises disruptions during the integration process.
• Post-close transition integration: During post-close transition integration, we work closely with your organisation to create target state operating models, analyse new entity management structures, draft integration plans, resolve quick-win opportunities, and address longer-term initiatives. This step ensures a smooth transition period immediately following the merger, maintaining operational efficiency.
• Post-close transformation: In the final phase, we manage discreet deal activities, guarantee day one business continuity, handle change management effectively, develop functional transition services agreements, and optimise your organisation, processes, and systems over a 2-4 year period. This long-term perspective ensures that the integration delivers sustained growth and value, well beyond the initial stages.

In a carve out, our approach begins with a focused due diligence exercise, instilling confidence in stakeholders regarding standalone operations. We collaborate closely with your finance teams and stakeholders to ensure that financial information complies with applicable accounting standards, forming a robust foundation for your company's future reporting as a listed entity.

In a divestiture, we assist in crafting and implementing the separation programme and governance structure. Our collaboration with your management teams results in the creation of an operational handbook, which identifies arrangements, proposed day one solutions (including transitional services), the fully standalone model, and the associated impact on separation costs.

We provide:
 

• Sales agreement advisory
• Separation management office
• Day one/IPO/SPAC readiness, planning, and stabilisation
• Transaction service agreements (TSA), carve-out, and stranded cost support
• Employee experience, change management, and communications
• Functional separation: R&D, sales and marketing, operations, HR, finance, tax, treasury, IT, real estate, legal
• Organisational design, leadership and workforce transition