Investments

Investments

High-performance businesses are constantly searching for ways to renew their portfolio of businesses to protect existing markets and enter new ones.

Merging with, or acquiring, an existing company is one of the key ways that such companies realize their growth goals.

FSR provides a suite of services that can help companies identify M&A targets that will support their growth strategies. We help create a road map to mitigate risk and achieve the projected benefits—while allowing the organization to concentrate on its normal day-to-day business.

Because our pre-deal processes are highly efficient and can be scaled up or down according to the size of the potential deal, clients are able to align their pre-deal expenditures more effectively with the value they ultimately hope to generate from the transaction.

Another vital element of FSR’s approach is to help clients create their own in-house M&A capability, with reusable processes and platforms that span all stages of the deal cycle. In this way, clients can apply the same rigor to the process of inorganic growth as they do to other business processes such as HR, IT, marketing or finance.

FSR's suite of M&A services includes:

  • Strategy. FSR can help clients develop the right M&A strategy by blending industry benchmarks and opportunities specific to the merging companies. We also help companies develop their own in-house M&A capability for future activity
  • Target screening. FSR’s approach is value-driven rather than simply financial, helping to decide whether a proposed acquisition fills strategic gaps.
  • Due diligence. FSR helps companies address this critical challenge by identifying and estimating the effect of synergies; pinpointing where technology can be used to create more value, conducting strategic, operational and IT due diligence; and identifying conflicts and potential risks.
  • Merger integration. Effectively integrating an acquisition is the most important success factor in any M&A. FSR has identified eight key success factors and has developed a three-phase approach to merger integration.
  • Carve-outs and divestures. FSR can help companies throughout the entire timeline of the divesture process, from conception through separation using a proprietary divesture framework. The framework includes a comprehensive methodology and toolsets that help companies plan, set up and execute the separation or carve-out of business units or subsidiaries.