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In today’s digital-driven world, IT is deeply interconnected with business operations, making it a critical factor in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for both buyers and sellers. IT plays a key role in enabling smooth integration or fast separation, ensuring business continuity, unlocking synergies and avoiding costly disruptions. On the contrary, ignoring IT risks could undermine the deal’s strategic and financial objectives.
Our IT M&A team brings you capabilities that are designed to unlock maximum value throughout the transaction lifecycle. From due diligence to post-deal integration or separation, we focus on driving value creation (e.g. by increasing scalability and saving costs), identifying IT synergies and optimisation opportunities and uncovering potential risks to ensure business continuity. Whether assessing IT readiness for sellers or developing IT integration plans for buyers, our expertise makes sure that technology becomes a strategic enabler of deal success, delivering measurable business outcomes.
"In any transactions, IT is the backbone of business continuity. Without a clear IT strategy, systems can become the hidden deal breaker – leading to delays, cost overruns and missed opportunities for value realisation”
Do you have a clear picture of IT risks and opportunities that could make or break your deal?
IT due diligence is a critical process conducted in transactions, offering stakeholders a deep dive into an organisation’s IT footprint. Our comprehensive IT assessment aims to identify potential risks and uncover opportunities for improvement by evaluating:
- overarching IT strategy and organisation
- business systems
- infrastructure robustness and scalability
- IT security measures and resilience capabilities
- value creation opportunities
- separation/integration complexity
Is the contemplated Target technology truly equipped to support your growth plans and deliver a competitive edge?
Technology due diligence will assess the company’s technology products or e-commerce platform – from its functionality, roadmap and underlying infrastructure to its security and delivery model. It allows the company to identify opportunities and risks and determine its full potential with:
- technology products and services, functionalities and architecture
- product development processes and delivery model
- R&D team capabilities and skills
- platform robustness and resilience
- cybersecurity postures and measures
Is your IT landscape ready to showcase its full value and stand up to buyer scrutiny?
For sellers, presenting IT as a well-prepared, transparent and value-driven asset can significantly influence buyer confidence and deal outcomes. Our vendor assistance service ensures that your IT function is ready for scrutiny and showcases its value effectively by:
- preparing the necessary IT-related documentation to support the due diligence phase and negotiations
- identifying and addressing any potential technology risks in advance to enhance the value of the IT function prior to a sale
- anticipating buyer expectations to identify value drivers and potential real issues to build buyer confidence
- assessing and evaluating future IT separation complexities, one-off costs estimates and IT stand-alone cost base to buyers
Do you have a clear value-led IT integration plan?
Although the concept of value realisation isn’t new, it continues to be a challenge, especially in a dynamic environment like M&A. Having a thorough IT integration plan in advance, followed by a fast and focused implementation, makes a difference and makes sure you’re able to realise the value of your merger or acquisition. We can help you with:
- defining the IT integration fundamentals (i.e. blueprint)
- developing a realistic IT integration planning with clear milestones that are linked to your synergy plan
- designing the new IT operating model and organisational structure
- managing and supporting the entire IT integration process.
How can your IT landscape support a fast execution and unlock deal value?
Carve-outs and divestments are becoming increasingly important in the current deal market. By separating businesses, divisions or brands, companies can focus on their core capabilities and maximise their stakeholder value.
Depending on the divestiture model (asset deal, spin-off, etc.), this will affect IT differently and require careful planning and fast execution. Our approach is designed to maximise the deal’s return by:
- setting up a deliverable IT separation plan that minimises business disruption and the need for IT TSAs
- identifying, developing and supporting IT TSA management, if required
- speeding up the transition execution of the carve-out business to becoming a NewCo
- advising you on how to optimise your remaining core IT operations following the separation.
Why choose us?
PwC ranked #1 Global M&A Advisor by Volume for 2023
Our PwC Corporate Finance team has ranked as the Global #1 M&A Advisor by Volume for 2023 by Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Mergermarket and Dealogic.
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