Our Goal:
To bring strategy, clarity, and certainty to business mergers and acquisitions through proven methodologies, accurate analysis, and definitive measures

As companies strive to keep ahead of the competition by acquiring market share or by increasing their horizontal or vertical offering through a merger or acquisition, the time required to select the most advantageous merger or acquisition candidates, perform due diligence, negotiate the agreement, and integrate the businesses, all while keeping their eye on their own bottom line, can stretch the time management skills of even the most focused management team.

Clearview Management Consultants has specialists in mergers and acquisitions that can provide expertise to augment your management team throughout the process.

Strategy Crafting. Throughout the merger and acquisition process it is essential to have an articulated corporate strategy that can be used as a roadmap, as well as a measurement tool to ensure your company reaps the benefits. Clearview can work with the existing corporate strategy or work with you to develop a specific acquisition strategy.

Identification of Merger and Acquisition Candidates. It is crucial to identify companies whose current position makes them viable candidates for acquisition or merger. Companies whose product offering, financial position, systems capabilities, corporate culture, and business viability provide synergy when combined with your company are among the areas that Clearview reviews in our development of a short list of potential companies to consider.

Due Diligence. Clearview works with our clients to reduce the time, cost, and ambiguity that can be associated with the due diligence process. Using our standard corporate review templates we can assist you in assimilating, organizing, analyzing, and preparing the due diligence documentation for corporate review and decision.

Organizational Development. One of the most difficult steps in any acquisition or merger is developing the combined organization. Clearview can work you to develop the organizational structure based upon your corporate strategy and business objectives. We have specialists who develop departmental, then position descriptions, followed by candidacy requirements. We can also interview candidates and incumbents to help decrease subjectivity and increase the probability that the right person will be in the right job. Our recruiting practice is also available to assist with the staffing of any open positions.

Business Driver Definition and Development. Integrating the resultant organization to ensure the benefits of the merger or acquisition involves identifying and developing business value drivers for each organizational area and across the company. Clearview assists our clients by focusing the value driver development on those areas that will assist the company in achieving their business objectives and developing the measures to determine when they are met.

Systems Selection and Implementation. Determining whether the existing or acquired systems offer the solution needed for the resultant business, or whether a new set of systems capabilities are needed is often one of the most critical and expensive decisions our clients make. Clearview's proven system selection and validation processes can significantly improve the success of any resultant systems decision and facilitate the subsequent implementation and integration process.