CLS Global Solutions’ Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) practice provides a broad array of services necessary to support our customers’ pre and post transaction needs. Our M&A consulting teams operate either as a resource to support an internal M&A group in the customer or as an outsourced M&A team that manages due-diligence and/or post integration. Regardless of our role CLS Global consultants work with post integration ROI mindset.

Today, M&A post integration failure rates are as high as 60-70%. Some estimates state that it’s two out of every three M&A’s fail to achieve the intended goals or live up to their financial promise. CLS Global Solutions leverages “lean culture” techniques as well implementing “culture enhancement” tools and techniques to stream-line vetting potential targets, qualifying IP and assessing HR capital risk. In other words, CLS Global Solutions helps our customers follow specific rules of engagement resulting in successful post integrations.

M&A activities are far more complex than the transaction, pre/post integration. We take a strategic perspective with an integration approach in mind. Through detailed analysis and assessments of our customers and acquired target employees, our team determines how M&A prospects will exceed our customers’ expectations. Since most of our practice area partners are seasoned M&A professionals, we employ customizable frameworks for our customers.

Most pre acquisition analysis will take into account a strategic fit to determine post integration ROI. We also focus on the people aspect prior to focusing on the products or services or integration portion of the deal itself. Evaluation of a future state sustainable organizational model will also take into consideration, future constraints in financial resources required to acquire and support sustaining the (surviving) entity.

Understanding the strategic strengths/weaknesses, efficiencies and synergies produced from the acquisition outcome yields increased market benefits in product(s)/service(s) compliments. Our short and long-term approach, often results in increased market strength and future innovation; as well as operating efficiencies from organizational integration across culture, workforce, methodologies, technologies, and assets.

Our approach to building employee synergy and alignment of core expertise and talent through transition, implementation, and knowledge transfer of intellectual capital keeps the core IP ROI in your company. The final result is often realized in the financial payoff CLS Global implements as part of defining clear financial outcomes mapped to critical functional areas requiring organizational adoption of acquired assets.

This process produces a risk management and mitigation plan that acts as a critical path punch list. During the transaction and post integration phases this plan ensures people, IP, customers and assets are retained, managed and utilized. Primary information gathering leverages prior work performed during due diligence using existing supporting documents.

CLS Global provides seasoned M&A professionals to support deals in process, or during integration, when the internal team needs critical support, i.e. negotiations, due diligence, business alignment, finance, legal work, post implementation ROI, etc.

Since consulting engagements are often strategic and one off in approach and implementation, CLS Global executives work with board members, C-level executives, owners and M&A leadership to pinpoint resource needs and identify the appropriate engagement plan for our customers.

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