Mergers & Restructuring

With substantial experience in transactions of all sizes, including those of many household-name organizations, Booz & Company provides merger and restructuring services to companies across a broad range of industries. In the past five years, the firm has supported more than 600 acquisitions and restructurings.

These services are built not only upon the firm’s knowledge base and hands-on efforts in post merger integration (PMI), M&A due diligence and post-deal restructuring, but also on the combined skills and intellectual capital of Booz & Company’s staff located on six continents. In the merger and restructuring space, the firm’s service offerings fall into seven broad categories.

Service areas

• Due diligence – Develop the strategic rationale for a deal as well as candidate screening, negotiation, clean-room operation, and other support. 
• Merger planning and integration – Capture post-deal value through integration planning and execution, benchmarking, and other efforts. 
• Corporate venturing – Advise and set up an organizational and governance structure between companies including technical/management capabilities. 
• Restructuring and turnarounds for growth – Assist under-performing companies, including stabilization of financial and operating performance. 
• Joint ventures and alliances – Develop strategic rationale for an alliance, defining screening criteria, and governance architecture.
• Divestitures and spinouts – Capture post-divestiture value, including the identification of objectives and market dynamics. 
• Privatizations and buyouts – Support one-time corporate finance events including leveraged and management buyouts, IPOs, and privatizations.