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Corporate Development Support

A transaction is the sum of a million moving parts: analysis, diligence, coordination, communication, negotiations, value realization (the list goes on). For a lean finance team, especially one without a corporate development team to support it, it’s a near impossible load to manage. And if you are a frequent buyer pursuing a robust roll-up or add on acquisition strategy, you may find yourself in constant need of support. Our experts can help.

We approach corporate development as if we’re an extension of the deal team, working hands-on to ensure your mergers, acquisitions (transformative or small add-ons), or other strategic transactions (equity and debt raise) are executed seamlessly and aligned with your broader strategic goals. Leveraging deep expertise in navigating private equity deals, we guide you through the complexities of the entire deal lifecycle to ensure you’re setting the stage for value creation every step of the way.
PAIN POINT

Don’t have bandwidth or in-house corporate development team to assess and execute add-on acquisitions and/or support equity or debt raise.

What Accordion brings:
Project manage entire deal process.
Evaluate the target and assist in deal negotiations and structuring to ensure timely deal execution.
Ensure data reliability.
Review data room materials, propose additional data requests, and interact with target management to conduct due diligence.
Model deal for all scenarios.
Perform deal, merger & synergy modeling including comprehensive scenario analysis.
Create best-in-class presentations.
Develop investment committee, board, and lender presentations to consummate the transaction.
PAIN POINT

Insufficient merger integration planning.

What Accordion brings:
Assess current and future states.
Conduct operational due diligence to assess current state and proposed future state (target) operating model design.
Assess back-office capabilities.
Conduct back-office assessment (Finance, IT, HR, etc.) Run synergy identification.
Get ready to operate.
Conduct day 1 planning & readiness.
Set post-merger priorities.
Make 100 Day plan.
PAIN POINT

Lack of actionable and repeatable post-merger integration best practices to ensure successful deal execution and synergy realization now and in future acquisitions.

What Accordion brings:
Integrate back-office functions.
Facilitate functional integration (e.g. Finance, IT) to ensure deal thesis and value capture is tracked and realized.
Design playbook.
Create a repeatable corporate development & merger integration playbook that can be leveraged for the current as well as future deals (particularly small add-on acquisitions in roll-ups) to minimize integration costs.
Align stakeholder buy-in.
Gain agreement on corporate development & merger integration playbook in advance of future acquisitions.
We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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Meet a few
of our experts.

Matt Marcus
Matt Marcus
Managing Director

Matt is a Managing Director with more than two decades of experience in diversified consulting and alternative investments. His specific expertise includes the management, development, and execution of transaction execution initiatives.

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Shaharyar Ahmed
Shaharyar Ahmed
Managing Director

Shaharyar is a Managing Director in the Transaction Execution Services group with more than 15 years of experience in private equity investments and portfolio management in the U.S., Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. His expertise allows him to focus on transaction execution and operational value creation engagements across a variety of industries.

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Hayk Piloyan
Hayk Piloyan
Senior Director

Hayk is a Senior Director in Accordion’s Transaction Execution practice with over a decade of experience in M&A, corporate finance and operational finance.

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Jasel Panchal
Jasel Panchal
Senior Director

Jasel is a Senior Director in the Transaction Execution Services practice and has comprehensive experience in M&A advisory, operating, and investing roles.

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