Divestitures

Sell-side due diligence

Sell-side due diligence aims to address the concerns and issues that may be relevant to even the most demanding buyer. This is a great opportunity to uncover the potential value in your assets for sale and ensure this is brought to life in your vendor materials.

Tax and legal considerations

Increase shareholder value, reduce transaction risk, and achieve optimal outcomes. Our team of M&A tax specialists have extensive global business experience, focusing on shareholder value and risk management. Collaborating with you and our LMC tax specialities, such as Transfer Pricing and International TaxOpens in a new window, we help identify strategies to provide an integrated approach to transactions.

Valuations

How value is perceived is no longer just reliant on financial metrics.  Our valuations team can help you identify, analyze and unlock new streams of value which are often overlooked prior to sale, to support your business sales narrative.

People 

Who stays with Remainco and who goes with the new company? How can you maintain productivity through a disruptive divestiture process?  Our HR and Change specialists know that transparent communications ensure everyone can move as smoothly as possible through this transition.

Deal Analytics

Any strong bidders pack will have a value creation plan backed by data-driven insights.  Our data scientists work closely with our deal specialists to uncover the value levers to help maximise your sale. Our deal analytics communityOpens in a new window can help you make better investment decisions and improve performance through advanced analytics and technology.

Carve-out accounting and restructuring

Separation project management

Working with your core separation team, we develop detailed plans covering pre-and post-Day 1 separation points. Our depth of separation experience ensures that critical Day 1 risks and actions as well as key steps to establish the standalone capabilities are managed, minimising business disruption and allowing management to focus on business as usual. We provide a structured implementation approach that adapts to your needs, enabling effective management of the separation.

Operational readiness

Divestitures provide an important opportunity to achieve your goals for optimizing strategic assets. We understand there is no one-size-fits-all, instead we’ve adapted our proven tools and processes to custom fit your culture, people and strategic environment so you’ll be deal ready and have the confidence to make the decisions that build value immediately and sustainably via operational readiness. Combined with the deep experience of data scientists and industry subject matter specialists, we’ll work with you from portfolio assessment through to post deal value creation to leave no stone unturned, no value left on the table.

Find out more post deal solutions in our Consulting Services