Committed to People First, Committed to Reaching Targets, Focused M&A without the Jargon
- Be supported by a team with full-cycle acquisition and divestiture history
- Bring along a leadership whose experienced implementation
- Collaborate with a flexible partner focused on your end-result
From "before" to "after" the deal
Capturing Value at every Stage of the Deal.
Capturing value from Merger & Acquisition, deal transactions and Post-Merger Integration requires companies to have strong capability in strategic decision-making and robust execution, as well as to manage the business portfolio proactively over time.
Our M&A team brings you the set of skills and resources your deal requires. By utilizing successful experiences, systematic processes, and strong analytics, our expertise provides insights, lend you capabilities and confidence, and more importantly, work with you shoulder-by shoulder to minimize disruption.
Full-cycle
Much more than advisors, we have been on both sides of the deal.
Let us work together and avoid risks, chase synergies and extract true deal value.
Implement
Beyond the broad strokes of strategy comes many practical challenges. We have been through them all.
Closely related to the transaction comes change and merging of organization and process. This road is paved with issues best solved prudently and efficently. Shearwater knows how to navigate these for you.
Collaborate
Work with a collaborative-minded partner. We are in it together.
With our minds on your end result, Shearwater aims to always stay open to how circumstances alter the need of your organization. Rely on us to be flexible and find a way to fit.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant
Pre-Acqusition Planning & Strategy
Consensus among executives is that huge potential value lies in M&A activities. Even so, unlocking the right deal in the right way, and for the right reason is ultimately what will allow value to be captured. When companies present their best and purest intentions for these activities to supplement organic growth, many get lost and even derailed in the M&A process.
We assure clients that a fitting plan will be in place pre-acquisition, before choosing the M&A target. We help our clients to be proactive buyers that adopt a continuous, structured, and open perspective to search for targets, then tailor your merger and acquisition plan and strategy through a rigorous and iterative approach.
Post-Merger Integration (PMI)
It is a delicate balancing act in need of dedication towards operations, staff, customers and shareholders to capture value of a M&A transaction. Our M&A expertise and capabilities assist clients in positioning the parent and the acquired company to thrive from the very beginning of the deal and beyond.
Generally, a successful PMI encompasses a few fundamental goals; to keep up the operational momentum of the ongoing business; to free up potential synergies and maximize value created in the process; to effectively integrate organizations, processes and align culture of the new company going forward; to obtain or strengthen your competitive position coming out of integration.
Daily operations are already time and energy consuming, do not spread your senior executives thin by adding further consuming initiatives like PMI on top. It is more likely to fail that way. Additionally, there are no two PMIs that are alike, the strategy and process must be tailored according to each situation, deal type, future focus and more. Shearwater helps clients tailor merger and acquisition strategy, planning, as well as PMI plan through an iterative and collaborative method.
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