‘Unravelling the picture’

A company looking for an acquisition identified a business division within a larger corporation as potential good fit for the direction in which the client wanted to grow. However, public information on the unit was very low and its media profile was nonexistent.

Tapping into our extensive contacts in the industry we were able to construct a picture of the unit identifying financial strengths, technology capability, market penetration and manufacturing footprint, which enabled our client to make a rapid judgement on the match of the business unit to the acquisition criteria that had already been drawn up.