Mergers & Acquisitions: Streamlined Due Diligence

  Background

Client was executing a business plan to consolidate a large number of small competitors through an aggressive acquisition campaign which would give them a dominant position in the marketplace.


  Challenge

Complex regulations from different states, various contractual terms, and the need for various internal and external approvals combined to make the acquisition of an individual company an expensive and time consuming process. In order to effectively implement their business plan, the client needed to reduce the time it took to complete an acquisition.


  Solution

Alliance Data consultants analyzed the acquisition processes and procedures. We made recommendations for a streamlined approach to minimize lag time and improve efficiency in the overall process, and deployed software to manage it.


  Results

Client achieved their goal of reducing the overall time from start to completion of a transaction by over 30%.