Client Description:

Private equity owned- Global business marketing firm

Client Opportunity or Challenge:

• The Client is a European private equity backed company; new investors have an aggressive growth plan in mind. Within 9 months of investment, the Client acquired 3 companies in the US- its first US investments.  Since growth via acquisition was not part of the core experience of our Client, our European Affiliate, Greene 6 Partners, based in Paris was engaged to support post merger integration and assimilation.  Since the diligence period was short, many risk areas were not well understood and required post acquisition remediation.
• Most of the existing management team was leaving the company because of the relocation of  company headquarters, hence there was a time sensitivity to dealing with issues
• We advised on a wide range of issues including

Role:

Consultant and advisor

Outcomes or Benefit:

• Created due diligence and acquisition assimilation guide book for client to use in subsequent transactions
• Devised strategy and criteria for Leasing decisions
• Executed risk assessment as well as IT transition plan
• Established structure for revised performance reporting including data structures
• Provided criteria and assessed outsourcing proposals for key functions
• Project managed issues resolution
• Mentored interim staff
• Served as surrogate general manager

NOTE:

Client names are not used because of Client privacy and Confidentiality Agreements.  Similarly, facts are cloaked to preclude people from deducing the Client name or situation.