Business Challenge

A sixty billion dollar financial services company desired to jump start growth in a subsidiary through acquisition or as part of a joint venture. A potential acquisition target had been identified. The challenge was to rapidly determine if the critical conditions existed to create enough value for both parties to justify significant investment in time and money. Conditions such as operational synergies, opportunities to create additional margin through scale and the chance to leverage an investment in business continuity needed to be examined.  Learn more

Business Challenge

A multi-billion dollar, world leader in the supply of automatic test equipment for the semiconductor industry was preparing a bid to purchase a division of a competitors company. Due diligence had been underway for several months and a clear picture of the target company was not emerging. The buyer needed to perform rapid due diligence on the target to accurately determine the costs for separation and develop a replacement strategy for many services such as IT, HR, finance, global trade and other administrative functions that were shared with corporate and other divisions.  Learn more