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Mergers and Acquisitions

Identifying, facilitating and evaluating growth opportunities

Through our up-to-date insight into global trends and metrics, our decades of research into what does and does not work, our unique analysis of the dynamics of energy markets and our direct experience of working with players across the industry, we assist our clients in not only finding new investment opportunities, but also in the due diligence of them. We are not financial advisors or analysts, but rather analysts of the capability and potential of end-user (retail) energy market players and of assumed company, competitive and market metrics and expectations.

Four kinds of support

  • Opportunity search. Identifying, initial filtering and introducing potential companies to acquire, invest in or partner with. We can search globally, regionally or within a given market. In many cases we are already aware of the opptunities and often have established contacts.
  • Competitive proposition stress-testing. Through our knowledge of the market and the company, we analyse whether assumptions around a company’s offering, positioning or market potential make sense.
  • Sell-side and buy side due diligence. We provide retail due diligence of the competitive assumptions and predictions of an investment target, including for instance estimated future customer base, margins, revenue, customer lifetime value, differentiation and new offering potential. We typically support investment banks, Institutional Investors and Corporate Investors, providing critical input to their financial models and evaluations within a bidding or sales process. We work at Phase 0 through to Phase 2. We do not however, provide financial analysis, advice or recommendation.
  • Delivery Capabilty Assessment (DCA). Provided with and though our partner organisation, Traxis Group, we provide expert assessments of the capability of growth companies (innovative businesses which have grown beyond start-up phase) to scale up. The assessment applies a methodology which has been tried and tested through projects for leading international corporations.

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