DATE
May 2017
Customized due-diligence program for private-equity client
Mid-market private-equity fund enhances its investment process through a dedicated market and operational due-diligence program with Arthur D. Little
Challenge
The client was a mid-market private-equity firm seeking to professionalize its deal-screening approach while actively seeking investments for its second fund.
Approach
The Arthur D. Little team customized its due-diligence program to meet the client's specific needs in a more effective manner.
A dedicated program was created to screen the client’s deal flow with a committed team of senior-level strategy and operations consultants, whose field experience helps generate unique business insight into the diligence process.
Arthur D. Little’s due-diligence program includes:
- Detailed secondary market research into a wide variety of niche industries, and determination or modeling of market size, market growth, future trends and the target’s market opportunities and threats
- Structured primary research and interviewing dozens of customers, competitors, suppliers, experts and other industry participants
- In-depth company due diligence - strategy, sales, operations, organizational alignment
- Value enhancement roadmap with quantifiable EBITDA improvements
- Roadmap of viable exit strategies in 4–5 year horizon
- Definitive go/no-go recommendation
Value
The dedicated team approach led to approximately 30 deals screened annually and closing on 3 highly successful deals.
The private-equity client was able to implement immediate sales-growth and EBITDA improvement programs, which were developed as part of our due diligence.
According to the client, the due-diligence program has compressed its holding period from 5 to 3 years, because it can create value in the company immediately upon closing, thus accelerating the exit timeline.
Customized due-diligence program for private-equity client
Mid-market private-equity fund enhances its investment process through a dedicated market and operational due-diligence program with Arthur D. Little
DATE
May 2017
Challenge
The client was a mid-market private-equity firm seeking to professionalize its deal-screening approach while actively seeking investments for its second fund.
Approach
The Arthur D. Little team customized its due-diligence program to meet the client's specific needs in a more effective manner.
A dedicated program was created to screen the client’s deal flow with a committed team of senior-level strategy and operations consultants, whose field experience helps generate unique business insight into the diligence process.
Arthur D. Little’s due-diligence program includes:
- Detailed secondary market research into a wide variety of niche industries, and determination or modeling of market size, market growth, future trends and the target’s market opportunities and threats
- Structured primary research and interviewing dozens of customers, competitors, suppliers, experts and other industry participants
- In-depth company due diligence - strategy, sales, operations, organizational alignment
- Value enhancement roadmap with quantifiable EBITDA improvements
- Roadmap of viable exit strategies in 4–5 year horizon
- Definitive go/no-go recommendation
Value
The dedicated team approach led to approximately 30 deals screened annually and closing on 3 highly successful deals.
The private-equity client was able to implement immediate sales-growth and EBITDA improvement programs, which were developed as part of our due diligence.
According to the client, the due-diligence program has compressed its holding period from 5 to 3 years, because it can create value in the company immediately upon closing, thus accelerating the exit timeline.