Increased competition for strategic and undervalued assets means it is no lon-ger enough for trusted advisors to simply identify and evaluate sustainable value opportunities. They must do so in a rapid, efficient way. Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) come in a variety of forms, and today’s business environ-ment demands that the players be focused, agile, and effective. Ankura meets these demands by delivering a wide range of expert advisory services across every stage of the transaction lifecycle, from sourcing evaluation before send-ing a letter of intent, through due diligence and 100-day planning to exit.

Maximizing Transaction Value Every Step of the Way

SOLUTIONS

At the core of our solutions is a commitment to partner with you to transform, grow, enable, and protect value in the midst of constant change. Our compre-hensive merger and acquisition performance services are tailored to each cli-ent’s unique circumstances, culture, and lifecycle.

100-Day Planning – Value creation is the mandate. Momentum and focus are the answer. We work with leadership and equity partners to establish a clear vi-sion, strategies, and actionable plans to generate near term value while building a strong foundation for continued long-term growth.

Integration Management Office – Speed of integration is a key factor of suc-cess. You need an agile organization leading the integration who can act quickly, respond decisively, convert integration strategy into detailed action plans, and manage those actions across functions. Our team can serve as the interim inte-gration mangaement office (IMO) or help you to establish your own.

Leadership Alignment and Cultural Integration – Leadership alignment is critical for success during and after a transaction integration. Alignment has a half-life, however. It must be an on-going area of focus. The old adage is that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Once you get leadership aligned, how do you cascade the new culture throughout the organization? We help assess the current culture, define the future combined cultural vision, cascade the new culture across the organization, and build reinforcing systems to support the integration of the new culture.

ANKURA VALUE

SPEEDWe bring proven methodologies, tools, and approaches that accelerate execution and value creation.

EXPERTISEOur experts provide deep financial, process, technology, program leader-ship, change management, business analysis, and subject matter expertise to drive results.

COLLABORATION AND ALIGNMENTWe understand the importance of driving alignment and collaboration across functions and stakeholders to create buy-in and ensure the commit-ment necessary to deliver.

PEOPLE FOCUSWe work to develop a shared un-derstanding of the WHY, WHAT, and HOW across the organization while equipping team members with new approaches, strategies, and tools to ensure sustainable results.

RISK REDUCTIONMaintain cross-functional focus and momentum to achieve program ob-jectives and drive results while iden-tifying risks and establish effective mitigation plans.

MERGER & ACQUISITION PERFORMANCE

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ANKURA STRATEGY & PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

Ankura’s strategy and performance team partners with the leaders of Fortune 500 and private equity firms across industries to deliver transformational change. With deep expertise leading strategy through execution, Ankura serves as a cata-lyst to jumpstart momentum, build capacity, and accelerate value cre-ation. We work with clients to ad-dress their most critical challenges across a broad spectrum of organi-zational inflection points utilizing a unique blend of business, financial, and technical skills; cross-function-al experience; and subject-matter expertise. Our bias toward action, data-driven recommendations, and our unique people-centric approach builds alignment and commitment, drives momentum, and ensures sustained results. To learn more, please click here.

Change Leadership – Organizations don’t change, people do. It is through the commitment of the people that real transformation happens. In order to get committed, people must understand four things: purpose, picture (vision), plan, and their place within the change. Ankura’s change leadership experts help drive alignment, adoption, and results.

Interim Management – Operating in today’s complex and ever-evolving busi-ness environment can present challenges for even the most experienced exec-utive teams. Our interim management services provide seasoned consultants who have the hands-on experience and skill set to assume executive roles for companies in transition.

Market-Sizing and Commercial Due Diligence – We work with our clients to develop an analytical approach to understanding a target’s current clients, pros-pects and go-to-market effectiveness. The end result is a clear understanding of the target’s growth prospects, historical results and key areas of focus post-ac-quisition.

Financial Modeling – Our team brings an element of financial and operational experiences to traditional financial analysis. We use a standardized method-ology and approach to work with our clients to model multiple scenarios to understand the ultimate financial and return profile for an M&A transaction.

Achieving Successful Acquisition Integration through Radical Focus – Anku-ra led the M&A integration of a global aviation services company across 14 major work streams, ensuring cultural integration and accelerating to operational steady state and synergy realization. Helping the company acquire its largest competi-tor, Ankura executed flawless transaction close, managing the transaction fund transfer, tightly coordinating global communications, and orchestrating new em-ployee events. During the engagement, Ankura completed the rebrand of 102 locations on day 1, set up an IMO, developed a 5-year strategic roadmap, and im-plemented PMO governance to ensure momentum on prioritized projects. As a result, the company achieved operational steady state in 50% of the targeted time.

Creating Unexpected Value through Successful Divestiture – Ankura led the execution of a complex divestiture for a multi-billion dollar global automotive parts manufacturer, performing rapid planning and leveraging its team’s exten-sive M&A knowledge to ensure the divestiture occurred nearly a month earlier than expected. As part of the divestiture, Ankura acted as de facto chief of staff for divestiture leader, holding vendors accountable for process alignment and executing change and communication leadership to support the retention of key talent. As a result, the client saw three times the number of forecasted approved bidders through the bid process, with bid prices 40-80% higher than projected.

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ABOUT US

Ankura is a business advisory and expert services firm defined by HOW we solve challenges. Whether a client is facing an immediate busi-ness challenge, trying to increase the value of their company or pro-tect against future risks, Ankura designs, develops, and executes tailored solutions by assembling the right combination of expertise. We build on this experience with every case, client, and situation, col-laborating to create innovative, cus-tomized solutions, and strategies designed for today’s ever-changing business environment. This gives our clients unparalleled insight and experience across a wide range of economic, governance, and regula-tory challenges. At Ankura, we know that collaboration drives results.Helen Lane

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