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Mergers and Acquisitions

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Powering Mergers and Acquisitions with IT Support

Our focus is firmly within the realms of IT, we engage across multiple business functions with a strong focus to support finance, legal, ​​​​​​​IT and procurement departments. We are playing an increasingly more frequent role in supporting clients overcome their challenges, whichever side of the transaction they are on.

Key areas include:

✓ Time - often teams are working to compressed timelines and need support to meet the requirements.

✓ Resource - they still have a business
to run, how do they meet the
additional requirements?

✓ Due diligence - gtting accurate information with cost reduction opportunities and risks identified.

✓ Success - how do they make a success
of the transaction for their business as many organisations do not realise the
benefits expected.

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Supporting Your Business Whichever Side of the Transaction You Are On

We offer solutions for:

Acquire / Merge >
Buy side of transaction

Disposal >
Sell side of transaction

Divested entity >
The spun-out business

How we can support you​:

✓ Understanding true IT assets landscape and identifying any potential risks.

✓ Support building technology & process roadmaps with change management plans.

✓ IT vendor & contract consolidation or carve out support through to execution of new contracts within timescales.

✓ Day 1 support and ongoing optimisation across IT.

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Acquire / Merge

Buy side of transaction.

  • Due diligence & negotiation
  • Purchase & sales agreement
  • On-boarding
  • Integration

Due diligence & negotiation

Obtain clarity over the value of IT assets and future liabilities/costs being acquired.

Assessments of IT infrastructure to deliver risk mitigation and efficiency plans.

Purchase & sales agreement

Clarity of commercial licence positions mitigate risks and support commercial IT
agreements execution.

Plan for change management and continuous IT operations.

On-boarding

Supporting IT and procurement teams to deliver:

  • Adoption and change plans
  • Migration plans
  • Entitlements to operate IT
  • Contract cost reduction plans

Integration

Migration support to deduplicate and optimise IT infrastructure and spend.

Continuous IT improvement and change management to realise synergies.

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Disposal

Sell side of transaction.

  • Separation planning & due diligence
  • Purchase & sales agreement
  • Exit from transitional services agreement
  • Ongoing operations

Separation planning & due diligence

Clarity of IT assets to segment and be transferred.

Assess and plan the IT assets remaining and identify risks and efficiency opportunities.

Purchase & sales agreement

Plan for change and support to separate infrastructure.

Renegotiate and resize 3rd party agreements.

Exit from transitional services agreement

Right size infrastructure and contracts for remainder of parent operations.

Ongoing operations

Continuous development and optimisation of IT.

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Divested entity

The spun-out business.

  • Impact of divestment
  • Divestment & day 1 operations
  • Planning future operations
  • Ongoing improvement

Impact of divestment

Support assessment of impact and risks of infrastructure separation on operations.

Plan infrastructure requirements and operations capability.

Divestment & day 1 operations

Ensure “rights to use” in place to run the business.

Migration of IT to new environment with change management plans.

Planning future operations

Establish governance over IT assets and investments.

Support to plan IT architecture, operations and improve processes to deliver efficiencies.

Ongoing improvement

Continuous optimisation of both IT technical and commercial structures to improve return on investment.

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How we have helped businesses

5,000 employees | Key sites US, UK, IT

Challenge

Integrate IT infrastructure of two merged ecommerce business to deliver efficiency and cost savings.

Outcomes

  • £1M + Infrastructure cost savings per year
  • 5 year IT integration strategy defined
  • Single unified post-merger IT team

Based in France

Challenge

Quickly divest part of their business following merger with another business.

Outcomes

  • Managed financial risk levels throughout the project resulting in no cost increases
  • 80+ vendor contracts and agreements managed and executed
  • Reduction of delays through coordinated approach to complex relationships between company and vendors

9,000 employees | 25 countries

Challenge

Bring together 3 separate companies, each with their own unique technologies, user groups and language requirements.

Outcomes

  • Cost benefits through creating ability to procure using master agreements
  • Improved user experience through consistent technology approach and consolidated platforms
  • Repeatable processes for technology “design & build”

13,000 employees | US HQ, Global presence

Challenge

Integrate 50 companies into 1 organisation with additional ongoing acquisition activities planned.

Outcomes

  • Operational efficiencies delivered through standardised structure, policies and processes
  • Reduced management overheads to focus on value-driven initiatives
  • Ability to support ongoing acquisition activity through a manageable and sustainable IT environment