Mergers & Acquisitions are an important part of a company's future, growth, and due diligence is a key element in the process.  It involves technology, relationships, return on investment and resource synergies. Also, it requires breadth as well as depth of knowledge in both business and technology.

Key Benefits

• Availability of additional targeted expertise
• Cost effective
• Provide an independent unbiased perspective
• Reduce TTM (time-to-market)
• Save internal resources, extension of your organization
• Solutions based orientation

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Capabilities

• Expertise in large and small company contracts
• Expertise in multiple functional areas and disciplines

We can free up internal resources, manage the process and facilitate decision making.

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Discovery

• We can determine the desires, needs, goals, objectives, timeframe for action, financial ability, key decision criteria, business processes, expectations, etc.

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Technology

• Hardware, software, intellectual property
• H/W: systems, boards, chips, architecture
• S/W: assembly, middleware, application, architecture
• IP: s/w, h/w designs, business processes
• Networking: internet protocol, ATM, SONET, architecture
• Broadband: cable, DSL, wireless
• Computer: PCs, workstations, servers, architecture, networks, storage
• Semiconductors: Processors, I/O interface, routers, communication, analog
• Imaging, digital video, RF

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Relationships

• Determine optimal business relationship
• Bridge the gap between diverse groups
• Build relationship with key decision makers and contacts
• Manage relationships
• Strategic, tactical

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Return on Investment

• Business model analysis and evaluation
• Gross margin analysis and evaluation
• Sales channel analysis and evaluation
• Recommend alternative solutions

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Synergies

• Line of business
• Identification