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Mergers & Acquisitions

Bringing businesses together, building a stronger future

When you bring organisations together through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or create new entities through separations and divestitures, there is little time to second-guess. With our cutting-edge technology and experienced professionals around the world, we can help you to create a stronger future for your organisation.

Making M&A history

In today’s world, M&A can be increasingly complex and decision-makers should move quickly and confidently to seize new opportunities. We understand the challenges—for both buyers and sellers alike.

Our global network of specialists can provide extensive industry knowledge and experience to help you confidently navigate the complexities of uniting organisations. Building value is our priority and we can work seamlessly with you from start to end.

For sellers

We can help you to understand the potential risks and rewards of a divestiture. We can assess your situation and help support your negotiating position to maximise the sale price and execute the deal with minimal disruption.

For buyers

We recognise the need to unlock value at each stage. We can work with you to identify potential targets and support an efficient transaction process.

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Corporate Finance

Get independent financial, M&An and debt/equity advice on your terms. Whether you want to expand, raise new finance, review debt facilities or realise the value of a sale, we are here for you.
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M&A Strategy

To help you drive growth and improve your competitive positioning, we can work with your senior executives to define strategic objectives that align with corporate strategy.
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Valuation & Modelling

Get insights that help turn critical issues into opportunities for growth. With vast experience in valuing, modelling and analysing business interests, we can help you thrive.
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Value Creation

Improve cash flow and enhance profits with the help of our specialists. Together, we can create value by identifying, planning and applying performance improvement initiatives.
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Acquisition & Vendor Diligence

Due diligence is essential when buying or selling. Whether you are acquiring a business or want to appeal to investors, we offer flexible services to help you to make informed business decisions.
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Post-Merger Integration & Divestiture

We help maximise the benefits from integrations with world-class programme management skills and robust operational and financial analysis expertise. Our approach is highly pragmatic and is based on extensive experience with carve out operations, the disposal of a business and delivering value after an acquisition.
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Unlock value across the M&A deal life cycle

Combining local and global experience, we build the right teams to explore potential strategies and assess how emerging tech can accelerate both inorganic and organic growth opportunities.

Our target screening approach can help you to identify acquisition targets. Then, we can pinpoint ways to diversify or increase market differentiation.

To help you to make fully informed decisions, we use our industry experience to highlight key issues and navigate blockers in valuations, deal structure, execution efforts and integration or separation planning. 

Throughout the diligence process, we can assess the deal, provide solutions to risks and identify and quantify potential advantages.

Whether you are integrating or separating an entity, we can develop a plan to deliver on the anticipated business interactions. This includes running integration-assessment workshops to developing customer retention plans. 

To reach the full value of your transaction, we may also create and design talent retention programmes and help manage change and communication initiatives to drive a smooth transaction.

Due to the complex nature of a M&A deal, you may seek a more in-depth and robust understanding of potential obstacles and opportunities for your business. This may include:

  • Assessing avenues for value creation
  • Exploring performance improvements
  • Reviewing readiness for disruptive technologies or events that may affect the future stability 

    Our thinking and assets

    New era merger & acquisition strategies

    Explore the changes to merger and acquisition (M&A) strategies post-pandemic and how activities in mergers and acquisitions have been affected globally.
    Perspective
    5 minute read
    Despite a strong M&A market in terms of corporate divestiture volume and value, our survey shows there is still room for improvement. 

    2023 M&A Trends Survey: Navigating Uncertainty

    As transactions remain essential for growth in most industries, the players who come out ahead from a period of volatility and uncertainty will have one trait in common: boldness. This report captures the sentiment and insights from corporate and private equity firms in the M&A market and projects M&A trends for the next 12 months.
    As the M&A market heats up, decision-making needs to speed up. iDeal lets you go deeper into the data to find the story behind the analytics—while there’s still time to take action. Accelerate your insights when it matters most.
    Our proprietary, market-leading cloud-based programme management tool is designed to support and accelerate M&An and divestiture transactions, strategic transformation or restructuring projects and value-realisation.

    The Synergy Solution

    How are companies winning the Mergers & Acquisitions game? In The Synergy Solution, Deloitte’s Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens show acquirers how to develop and execute an M&A strategy—end-to-end—that helps avoid the pitfalls and creates real, long-term shareholder value.

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    Ruvini Fernando

    Head - Financial Advisory | Deloitte Sri Lanka and Maldives