Integrate a business, Joint venture

Our approach

We can help your business integrate an acquisition and unlock its full potential.

Our experts support you in making your integration a success, from due diligence to the incorporation of the target in your “run-mode” management system. We mobilise the right functional experts and focus our effort on key stakes.

Our approach helps you build the right integration strategy, implement change management dynamic, maximise synergies, minimise integration costs, implement relevant synergy tracking mechanisms, and empower your teams in future acquisitions by helping them build your integration playbook.

Our support

Our multidisciplinary teams include experts in strategy, operations, IT, finance, tax, financial engineering… to ensure success at all phases of your integration.

Synergy due diligence

We help you assess potential synergies at due diligence by leveraging our understanding of your and the target’s models, our sector and functional expertise, and our benchmarks in comparable situations.

Integration strategy

Before closing the deal, we help you build the right integration strategy, structure the project, and identify the trade-offs needed for your integration objectives and the most efficient project start.

Integration management

We help your teams refine their assessment of synergies, and build action plans and each function’s operating model. We drumbeat the execution in short sprints, to keep teams mobilised and manage interdependencies.

Functional support

Our experts deep dive on the most sensitive or technical issues to help you assess structuring scenarios and formalise decision making parameter

Synergy monitoring

We define and implement relevant financial and operational KPIs and tracking tool, embedding them in your management routines to ensure that the integration stays on track after the end of the project.

Change management and culture

We help onboard your team and anticipate change management paying close attention to the shared vision for the combined group; cultural integration, key people retention and communication with all stakeholders.

Integration playbook

We provide structured feedback and provide your teams with a playbook covering each stage of the integration, adapted to the specific project and your culture and informed by our experience of other integrations.

How we help our clients

Deal Financial Reporting & Structuring

Our Capital Markets & Financial Engineering Team supports you throughout your transaction process.

Public M&A

Our Capital Markets & Financial Engineering team supports listed companies in their major transactions (acquisitions, disposals, takeovers, spin-off, etc.)

CFO Advisory

CFO Advisory Services – We support finance departments in the preparation and management of their transformation projects.

Working Capital Management and Cash Services

The Cash Services Team provides assitance for all cash management issues

Technology Performance

Improving technological performance at the heart of your strategic challenges

S&O in M&A

We support you with all operational aspects of transactions, from sell-side preparation through to due diligence and post-merger integration

PPA

Purchase price allocation, impairment tests, and portfolio reviews: accounting issues that need to be anticipated

Tax Valuation

Valuation specialists at the service of your tax issues

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