BUY SIDE DEAL ADVISORY
HPA’s Buy Side Deal Advisor
helps businesses grow strategically, and maximize their value,
through a prudent acquisition and execution process
Through a suite of services, we help answer the challenging questions related to an acquisition:
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Growth Strategy and Deal Thesis Development
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What is our growth strategy and how can an acquisition support this strategy?
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What level of returns justifies an acquisition?
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What is an acceptable level of risk our business can tolerate?
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Target Identification
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Based on our growth strategy, what are the right products, markets, and geography we should target?
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Within the targeted products, markets, and geographies – what are the right business we should target?
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Deal Sourcing and Negotiations
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How do we approach the target business and negotiations?
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What will motivate the targets and their appetite for a sale?
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Financial, Market, Operational Diligence and Synergy Assessment
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What are the key benefits of the acquisitions? Is this really the right business for us to acquire?
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What are the risks associated with this business and how can we mitigate risks?
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How do we establish a price for the target business?
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Pre-Closing Implementation and Rapid Synergy Realization Planning
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What should we be doing on Day 1 to Day 100?
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How do we integrate the business and what level of support is required for the target’s management team and systems?
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How do we rapidly realize the value identified in our deal thesis?
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Deal Execution and Closing
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What are the final requirements prior to closing?
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How can we mitigate disruption risk to our legacy business?
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Realization and Integration
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How do we protect the value of the business we just bought, while executing our implementation plan?
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How do we measure and track the integration?
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What can we do to manage our people throughout the integration process?
IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT IT COSTS;
it’s about what it is worth!