Driving value through transactions

Unlock growth from every business transaction. Deals provide an opportunity to strengthen existing capabilities and build new ones, deliver faster operational transformation and improve protection.

As organisations look towards transactions for success, the challenge is making sure each one builds value and supports long-term goals while improving capabilities and operations efficiently. This can be daunting without the right approach or expertise.

Whether you're looking to accelerate development, improve efficiencies or transform entirely, we’ll help you meet these challenges directly. By identifying opportunities early, we’ll turn every transaction into another step forwards, maximising returns, protecting value, and ensuring long-term growth.

Find out how we create, realise and protect value throughout the deal lifecycle.

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What does value mean to you?

More and more companies are exploring how to improve the value of their business as a whole and insulate themselves from future shocks. Whether you are seeking to cut costs, maximise the potential of your people, reinvent your business model or break into new markets, you should start with a value creation mindset.

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The need to transform can be brought about by all manner of scenarios depending on your business lifecycle, regulatory requirements, or industry disruption.

With persistent market and economic challenges, and disruption caused by technological advances and climate change, changing the way you do business is now essential. Yet many leaders are uncertain about the right strategies to adopt and the speed of change needed to find growth.

Explore how we can help you at any stage in your journey to uncover and realise value.

56%

of senior executives see transactions as the best way to keep up with the speed of change

Find out why organisations are focusing on core business offerings, selling off anything surplus to requirements or that no longer fits with central strategy or purpose. Then uncover four broad strategies for success: investing to grow, divesting and optimising, pivoting, and doing more with what you have.

“Today, the mantra is focusing on the core – do what you’re good at, and divest the rest. It’s an increasingly popular strategy – but doing it well takes care, planning and preparation.”

Growing a business doesn't always require radical change or the acquisition of another business with the skills, technology or knowledge needed to transform how you work.

Often, there can be significant unlocked value opportunities lying dormant in your existing business, particularly if you have limited resources. See why doing more with what you already have can be a rich source of growth and value.

“Businesses that take concerted steps to maximise every resource that they have are more efficient, productive and critically, more resilient.”

Driving value through transactions

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