Corporate Development

The secret for the success of many companies (both local and global) lies in their imbedded culture of regularly revisiting their corporate and portfolio strategy so as to understand the drivers of advantage and identify attractive avenues for future growth.

A well thought out mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) strategy can be a source of competitive advantage and is an important part of any company's long-term value-creation plan. With more and more companies beginning to take a more thorough systematic look at their corporate portfolios, divestitures—the selling off of pieces of the portfolio—are quickly rising to the top of the corporate agenda. This is more so when a company is pursuing opportunities for growth in uncertain situations. In such situations, joint ventures and alliances have become an increasingly important—and complex—part of corporate strategy.

M&A strategies involve regularly identifying attractive growth avenues through a carefully developed long-term value-creation plan and management of the end-to-end transaction process, from target screening to final integration.

Divestitures involves systematically taking a look at a company’s corporate portfolio to ascertain the businesses  that no longer fit within the company’s strategic agenda and coming up with a strategy for selling them off.

Alliances and joint ventures include defining the strategic rationale of a partnership, identifying its appropriate organizational and governance structures, and managing it stringently to achieve the desired goals.