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Operational Due Diligence

In a private equity environment fueled by M&A, it’s easy to get caught up solely in a target company’s financials. But a strong business isn’t just about the numbers. The behind-the-scenes operations, assets, systems, and human capital tell the full story.

Our operational due diligence experts pull back the curtain to evaluate the core operations of your target investment. By focusing on the organization’s people, processes, and technologies, we uncover hidden risks, inefficiencies, and value creation opportunities to ensure that when you acquire a new business, you have the full picture.
PAIN POINT

Inadequate understanding of operational entanglements—standalone and stranded costs—in a carve-out setting.

What Accordion brings:
Comprehensively assess operating model.
Perform a comprehensive assessment of operational entanglements across every aspect of the operating model to understand complexity and set the foundations for pre- and post-close planning.
Advise on valuation.
Develop a representative view of the carved-out business’ cost profile and financial statements to inform valuation.
Assess value creation opportunity.
Identify value to be unlocked by right-sizing shared functions post-close based on RemainCo’s perimeter.
PAIN POINT

Disconnected integration timelines, communication, and culture between company, their add-on business, and other stakeholders.

What Accordion brings:
Pinpoint supply chain and operations optimizations.
Identify opportunities to optimize supply chain & business operations in order to serve the post-transaction footprint and position the business for growth.
Identify productivity and efficiency opportunities.
Leverage deep industry expertise to identify opportunities to improve productivity and efficiency.
Simplify product portfolio.
Assess combined product and SKU portfolio and unlock value from rationalization and simplification.
PAIN POINT

Inefficient infrastructure and back-office support.

What Accordion brings:
Optimize technology stack.
Assess technology stack, infrastructure risk, and technology support and recommend options to streamline and optimize.
Plan for your finance function’s future state.
Build blueprint for the optimized, future-state finance function, leveraging cutting edge technology, data, and analytics.
Standardize processes and share services.
Identify process standardization and shared services opportunities to leverage the scale of the combined organization.
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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George Theocharopoulos
George Theocharopoulos
Managing Director

George is a Managing Director with more than 20 years of M&A and operational performance improvement experience in industry and consulting. Throughout his career, he has led complex M&A transactions and operational restructuring and turnaround efforts across a variety of industries, both as an advisor as well as an executive.

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Gaurang Gupta
Gaurang Gupta
Managing Director

Gaurang is a Managing Director with nearly a decade of experience advising clients in driving value through deal execution for complex M&A and divestitures providing both buy and sell-side support. His specialties include integration & separation program management & governance, Day 1/ 100 planning & execution, post-merger integration, TSA management, financial close, consolidation and reporting, standalone costing and...

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Joseph Luke
Joseph Luke
Executive Director

Joseph is an Executive Director in Accordion’s Transaction Execution Practice with nearly two decades of experience executing buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions – both as an advisor and a corporate executive.

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