Strategy and Transactions

Enabling fast-track growth and portfolio strategies that help you realize your full potential for a better future.
 

From market viability assessments to investment strategies to portfolio optimization, we help you drive profitable growth. Our highly integrated strategy capabilities help you identify new market and product opportunities, better understand current and future customer bases and optimize performance while minimizing risk.

Our capabilities:

• Portfolio and business unit strategy
• New market growth opportunities
• Strategic business model evaluation
• Digital transformation strategy
• Route-to-market design
• Pricing optimization strategy
• Customer segmentation
• Sales and marketing effectiveness
• M&A strategy
• Commercial diligence (buy-side)
• Capital allocation strategy
• Tax strategy
• Full Potential ParadigmTM

Supporting better decisions around financing and funding capital expansion and optimizing capital efficiency.

Value creation is at the heart of our Corporate Finance CFO proposition. It aligns with our Capital Agenda and delivers optionality, risk mitigation, efficient operations and financial planning across all aspects of the capital agenda – from raising to investing, to optimizing and preserving capital.

From raising capital to fund large infrastructure projects to increasing value for shareholders, we have the people, analytics and tools to help you better allocate your capital and key investment decisions.

Our capabilities:

• Forecasting, planning, and analytics
• Capital allocation and portfolio review
• Corporate finance transactions
• Optimization: cash flow and P&L
• Optimization: balance sheet
• Risk mitigation and corporate financial operations

Enabling strategic growth through better integrated and operationalized acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances.
 

We help you identify the right assets to buy and integrate at the right price, and at the right time, to fully realize the value of the transaction. Whether full acquisition, joint venture or alliance, we work with you to quickly provide an effective and efficient new or integrated entity.

Our capabilities:

• M&A advisory
• Commercial, cyber, financial, IT, operational, HR and tax due diligence
• M&A integration • Joint venture set-up and planning
• Operating and organizational model design
• Readiness support
• Synergy assessments
• Transaction analytics

Enabling strategic portfolio management and better divestments that help you improve value from a sale of an entire company, carve-out, spin off or joint venture. 

 

Our strategic portfolio management advice helps you decide what and when to monetize. Our divestiture services help deliver full value from a divestiture, whether you are a corporate or a private equity fund, as we help you limit disruption, manage remaining cost structures and allow you to focus on future growth. We execute across the broad divestiture life cycle, including strategy, separation and stabilization upon deal closing. We enable management to craft the value story and deal model, market to buyers, optimize tax attributes to buyer and seller, prepare carve-out financials and develop operational separation plans.

Our capabilities:

• Portfolio strategy, optimization and management
• Divestments, carve-outs and spin-offs advice
• Equity story development
• Preparation for negotiation and execution
• Improvement of the remaining business
• Tax structuring
• Bridging of audited financials to deal-basis financials
• Readiness assessment and day one planning
• Operational separation planning
• Presale diligence, including advanced analytics

Providing trusted leadership in urgent, critical and complex situations to rapidly solve business challenges, sustainably improve results and help you reshape for a better future.
 

We work closely with clients motivated to transform financial and/or operational performance through value creation, value preservation or value recovery; and where a sustainable outcome is desired.

All sectors are facing disruption. Certain trigger events cause disruption to become business critical issues. Companies must build resilience to prepare for, and respond to, these trigger events before options evaporate and the risk of losing control increases.

Reshaping Results is SGV/EY’s set of solutions to help stakeholders facing these trigger events. It is a broad experienced capability that we bring to clients, and which is underpinned by a variety of competencies working in collaboration on delivery.

We provide strategy and execution support to clients seeking to sell, merge or divest their business or selected assets as part of our sell-side advisory services — from exit readiness, investor search, due diligence coordination to negotiations and closure.

On the buy-side, we provide strategy and execution support to clients seeking to increase their business services, scale of operations, access to new markets, diversifying their product range, and investing excess cash — from target search, due diligence, bid preparation and submission, negotiation and closure.

We advise our clients on conceptualizing and developing modelling solutions that support their decision making on complex business transactions.

Model Build – our valuation advisors develop financial models for various purposes: financial forecasts, simulations, project finance, business planning.

Model Review – our valuation advisors enhance the user value of business models by: (1) providing assurance on integrity and reliability of models; (2) benchmarking against best practices; and (3) testing usability of models for its intended use.