Transaction Services

Maximize value across the entire ownership lifecycle with hands-on commercial insight and support.

Open up the entire commercial engine of your target or asset

Three out of four private equity deals fail to fully meet pre-deal expectations as a result of factors including poor planning, unforeseen market conditions, and underestimating operational complexities.

To effectively unlock value, investors must go beyond top-line metrics and spreadsheets alone. Just like assessing a car’s full potential by examining its inner workings and surroundings, delivering returns requires opening up the entire commercial engine and the landscape it runs in—whether you’re buying, scaling, or selling.

What we do
We provide private equity and corporate investors with hands-on commercial insight and support across every stage of the ownership lifecycle, ensuring decisions are well-informed and the investment journey optimized for growth.
We are white collar craftsmen bringing pragmatic, actionable insights to every stage of the ownership lifecycle.
Developing commercial engines is our core expertise. We bring a mix of bottom-up operational insight and practice alongside top-down strategic analysis and understanding. With a focus on execution and change management, we help investors make well-informed decisions, unlocking untapped potential to optimize business and portfolio performance.

Our services include:

Set the foundation for success with insight-driven strategies to deliver on your growth goals.

We help define the role of M&A as a key growth lever for your organization or develop a tailored investment thesis specific to your target.

Pinpoint acquisition targets that fit your strategic goals and growth ambitions.

We identify relevant acquisition segments and companies and evaluate deal feasibility and fit with your organization or portfolio.

Evaluate targets with rigorous, hands-on commercial analysis to uncover risks and opportunities.

We deliver an end-to-end commercial assessment of your target by opening up both the internal commercial engine and the external landscape it runs in.

On top, we identify post-acquisition growth routes and levers in a consolidated value creation plan and roadmap.

Seamlessly integrate and enhance the commercial engine of newly acquired businesses.

PMI: We ensure operational and cultural alignment through change architecture and shared ways of working.

Value creation plan: We identify growth routes and levers and create a detailed value creation plan and roadmap aligned with your time horizon and objectives.

Deep dive into the commercial engine to maximize value creation across the brand, demand and deal engines.

We design, develop and accelerate the full commercial engine of your asset and act as a sparring partner to board and management on continuous commercialization and optimization potential.

Prepare for a successful exit by maximizing commercial performance to secure the best terms.

We support on prioritizing and executing growth initiatives—from strategy to implementation—to increase the value of your asset and act as a commercial sparring partner to board and management to prepare your business for successful exit.

Equip potential buyers with clear commercial data and a well-positioned narrative to support confident decision-making.

We create a compelling commercial narrative with underlying data-driven documentation and identify future growth avenues to optimally position your business for sale.

I'd never seen such a detailed, ready-to-execute value creation roadmap as part of a commercial due diligence before.

Investment Director at Nordic private equity fund

Our hands-on, operational approach to transaction services

We are white-collar craftsmen specialized in building high-performance commercial engines. Our senior-led, hands-on approach helps investors deliver returns by identifying, developing, and accelerating actionable value realization initiatives.

We dig deep into commercial operations at the intersection of sales, marketing, customer success, and product. Our hands-on approach involves thorough evaluations of commercial processes and technology—from account planning to pipeline management, and from CRM to CMS. With a specialized, senior-led focus, we deliver a unique combination of excellence and affordability, setting us apart from conventional options.

Case in point: Commercial due diligence

How we developed a detailed value creation plan for a Nordic PE fund seeking to expand to new industries

A leading Nordic private equity fund, focused on small- and mid-cap, sought to expand its portfolio into unfamiliar industries. After identifying a target, they needed support in evaluating its commercial risks and opportunities.

In less than four weeks, we delivered an end-to-end assessment, analyzing both the internal commercial engine and the external market landscape. This included market attractiveness, commercial performance and operations, and growth infrastructure. On top, we developed a value creation plan and roadmap, outlining high potential growth routes and levers for post-acquisition. 

We have now entered a collaborative partnership with the fund to support on both pre-acquisition and post-acquisition initiatives to expand the fund’s portfolio in new territory and optimize portfolio performance.

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