SERVICES
Successful execution of transaction strategy requires tough choices. The right alignment of stakeholder drivers, people, and resources is critical to your success. Our transaction strategy services help you effectively plan, prioritize and execute major transactions so that organisational resources support the successful achievement of your business strategy. Our transaction strategy services include:
• Strategic planning
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Project management office (PMO)
• Organizational assessment and planning
Our team will be dedicated to helping you make informed business decisions by applying our expertise and exemplary advisory skills to your transaction. We can offer a highly tailored service as well as proven methodologies with broad public and private sector experience.
TRANSACTION EXECUTION SUPPORT
We align our services to ensure we are supporting you in assessing your transaction options. We understand that every transaction has a distinct profile and assemble the right team to work with you throughout the transaction life cycle. We can help you to plan and manage your pursuit of target transactions to achieve your strategic objectives. We will focus on your need to improve growth, profitability and competitiveness.
From identification through to implementation and post-integration, our focus is on helping you to enhance your profitability and competitiveness. We have extensive expertise in supporting competitive infrastructure and commercial bids and can assist acquirers to ensure that the likely responses of the target are anticipated well in advance.
We provide expert advice on those elements essential to a successful bid. We can assist with gaining access to information, operating to timescales, maintain a robust process and help deal with an aggressive competitive environment. Our expert guidance is tailored to suit your needs and individual circumstances.
We can help you to: prepare transaction themes; prepare a financial foundation for the bid, explore wider opportunities, and develop a stakeholder alignment plan. Our services include:
• Profile building
• Transaction manntagement
• Alliance building
• Proposal development
• Pricing strategy definition
• Negotiation leadership or support
NEGOTIATION STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION
Our advisers understand the strategic, interpersonal, and psychological aspects of negotiations. Through effective and systematic preparation and an unerring focus on the objectives of all stakeholders, we will work with you to:
• Development effective transaction specific negotiation strategies
• Project manage the negotiation process focused on maximising value
• Provide strategic and tactical advice and support
• Lead negotiations on your behalf, if appropriate
• Support the formation and development of your development team
Our professionals have in-depth knowledge and proven track records in delivering successful results as trusted advisers to clients.
POST AWARD TRANSITION
We combine exemplary programme management skills with robust operational and financial analysis expertise to help maximise delivered value from integrations. We can help investor/operators maximise the benefits of a successful project award. Our approach is highly pragmatic and is based on the extensive expertise of our advisers with:
• Benefit realisation plan review and validation
• Development of transition blueprint
• Development of detailed implementation plans and supporting financials
• Planning and managing the discreet actions required to complete the transition into operations and ensure business continuity from day one
• Mobilising and co-ordinating the project teams around a well structured and managed programme and
• Managing people issues and programme communication.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Our people are well-connected with traditional influencers. At the same time, our professionals are well-versed in influencing online influencers, an essential component to almost any winning public affairs strategy.
We leverage the right combination of communications tools to educate and motivate each target audience, and we integrate them into a seamless whole campaign with greater impact than the sum of its parts. Our areas of expertise span both “off-line” and online communications, and include:
• Public education
• Social marketing
• Stakeholder outreach and engagement
• Partnerships and ally development
• Grass-tops and grass-roots mobilization
• Media relations
We know how to design and execute successful public education and social-marketing campaigns for clients in all sectors.
MEDIA RELATIONS
We place media relations strategy at the core of every integrated communications program. Our team excel at matching the right message with the right audience. We work the way the media do. We have structured ourselves much like a newsroom of a major news organization so that we can work quickly, globally and 24/7. We are constantly evolving to mirror the rapidly changing media landscape. Our expertise is dynamic and includes:
• Strategy and Message Development
• Tracking and Analysis
• Audience Targeting
• Op-ed Development and Placement
• Audits
• Editorial Campaigns
• Media Training
• Media Tours
• Media Material Development
• Database Development and Maintenance
CRISIS AND REPUTATION MANAGEMENT
When the stakes are at their highest during a crisis we can provide you with strategies, tools and perspectives needed to defend your reputation whilst protecting business operations and the execution of target transactions. Our crisis and reputation management service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can include:
• Rapid response
• Media management/analysis
• Risk analysis
• Crisis planning
• Government relations
• Opposition research
• Employee/investor communication planning
INTEGRATED SERVICE PROVISION
We will apply expert resources to continuously deliver strategic and actionable insight in a dynamic transaction environment to shape and adapt your transaction strategy and its ongoing execution. We are absolutely focused on the seamless delivery of consistent and integrated service to support you successfully secure target transactions. Our team will not only provide transaction specific expertise but will also be committed to delivering a seamless service from start to finish.
• Transaction strategy development and execution support
• Negotiation strategy, development, execution, and leadership
• Effective review, improvement, and execution of communications strategy
• Public affairs expertise
• Grass roots and grass tops engagement
• Market research
• Post Award Transition