Stratford Business Assessment Discovery
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Mergers and Acquisitions
Your team of M&A experts
Ensure you get the best deal and outcome possible with a structured, phased and planned approach to your mergers and acquisitions.
Leveraging our business expertise, Stratford has helped
organizations like yours get the most from their business and their M&A transactions for over ten years.
Our dedicated team draws on years of practical business experience
and takes a collaborative, cross-practice approach to deliver you a customized end-to-end M&A solution to see you through the transition successfully.
Trusted and respected by leaders of growing organizations
Why Stratford?
The teams we’ve supported through mergers or acquisitions chose us because…
Proven
Methodologies, templates & playbooks
Experienced
Executives who've been in your shoes
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of M&A transactions performed
End-to-end
Solutions from strategy to post-integration
Value realization
Focus to get the best return on investment
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M&A
PLAYBOOK Checklist
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M&A
Data Room Checklist
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Our Approach
Studies have shown that companies with a well-structured M&A process have a much higher likelihood of achieving their desired outcomes than those who did not. Stratford’s structured, phased, and planned M&A approach contains six key stages – which we use to guide clients through M&A deals and achieve the intended deal value.
“Having that external perspective to help us through that process has been extremely beneficial. Especially at an enterprise level – we have four different divisions, each with their own priorities and agendas, and we have to address all that while also meeting the expectations of the market, our board and our shareholders. We have relied on Stratford to help in this area quite a bit.”
M&A Solutions
Stratford offers a number of customized M&A solutions for buyers and sellers alike. We are able to facilitate and manage the entire process or lean-in and provide support at a particular phase in the project.
For the Buyer
- Developing your M&A playbook
- M&A strategic advisory
- Due diligence leadership and assessment
- Pre -integration and integration strategy and implementation
- Cultural gap analysis and integration
- Risk assessment
- Communications, change management and best practices
- Post integration lessons learned
For the Seller
- M&A advisory – helping you through all the steps
- Positioning your company for sale
- Value enhancement
- Finding the right support partners
- Data room set up and management
- Supporting integration success and value realization
M&A Resources
M&A Readiness Guide for Sellers
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M&A Data Room Checklist
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IP Considerations for M&A
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