An M&A strategy can be defensive—focused on building resilience—or offensive, accelerating business model transformation and unlocking new value. We can help you define a strategy aligned with your objectives and industry trends, formalizing the target pursuit process for acquisitions and providing portfolio review and deal structuring for divestitures.

Our services include:

• Growth and portfolio strategy development
• Strategic and operating model assessment
• Buy-side and sell-side capability development
• Modeling and strategic alternatives
• Buy-side and sell-side corporate finance/investment banking
• M&A innovative technologies
  

Your M&A journey starts with ensuring your strategy aligns with your company’s long-term vision. We can help you identify, weigh, and compare growth pathways and potential targets to accelerate your pursuit of success.

Our services include: 

• Buy-side and sell-side readiness assessment 
• Target identification and screening 
• Pre-bid advisory and diligence 
• Vendor assistance 
• Value lever identification 
• Tax and deal structuring 
• M&A innovative technologies

Deloitte’s people, processes, and technologies enable efficient, effective due diligence across financial, operational, and commercial areas, allowing you to focus on strategic priorities. We help identify risks, value drivers, and synergy opportunities for acquisitions and divestitures, supporting value creation and post-deal success.

Our services include: 

• Bid and negotiation support 
• Capital/finance advisory 
• Due diligence: Financial and tax, commercial and operational, HR, IT and cyber, regulatory and compliance, sustainability, and integrity 
• Valuation and sensitivity analysis 
• Sell-side virtual data room and clean room management 
• Synergy and value quantification

Preparing for Day 1 implementation requires managing everything from cybersecurity to corporate culture, with each workstream impacting long-term synergies and performance. We can help you take control with real-time dashboards and collaborative tools to map, track, and manage critical processes for synergy capture and sustained growth.

Our services include: 

• Purchase agreement advisory 
• Integration management office 
  
• Day 1 readiness, planning, and stabilization 
  
• Synergy targets and realization 
  
• Organizational design; leadership and workforce transition 
  
• Employee experience, change management, and communications 
  
• Functional integration: Research & development, sales & marketing, operations, HR, finance, tax, IT, real estate, legal 
• M&A innovative technologies

Divesting an asset or selling a company brings significant challenges, from managing costs and timelines to minimizing business disruption. Leveraging experience from 2,500+ deals, we help clients navigate complex market and economic conditions to become prepared sellers.

Our services include: 

• Sale agreement advisory 
• Separation management office 
• Day 1/IPO/SPAC readiness, planning, and stabilization 
• Transaction Service Agreement (TSA), carve-out, and stranded cost support 
• Employee experience, change management, and communications 
• Functional separation: Research & development, sales & marketing, operations, HR, finance, tax, treasury, IT, real estate, legal 
• Organizational design; leadership and workforce transition 
• M&A innovative technologies