Sustainable growth through mergers & acquisitions is achievable.
We are a collective of individuals with a shared passion about M&A, and we want to tip the scale from deals being about financial engineering to being about driving strategic and cultural change in a business. Successful deals are possible, we’ve just been doing it the wrong way.
There was no conscious decision point 20 years ago where we said we would be specialists in delivering mergers and acquisitions. The variety of deals we’ve each worked on has meant it’s taken us decades to reach the point where we rarely come across something we haven’t seen before. Each integration has been intellectually challenging and has needed personal commitment to make it work.
Success for us is putting in place a management team aligned by common goals, refocused on their customers and the next stage of growth for their business.
Our fresh thinking is born from challenging everything about how mergers and acquisitions are delivered. The commonly accepted way of doing things is wrong. Working with us will feel different to anyone else you have worked with before.
Each deal and industry sector has its own unique challenges. We start from first principles to understand who you are and what you’d like to achieve…
SUCCESS
What does success look like? Where do you want to get to in 3 to 5 years?
MARKET
How quickly is the market evolving and what are the drivers for change? Who is innovating and disrupting…are you reacting or leading?
M&A STRATEGY
How does M&A fit into your strategy? Is your instinct full integration or keeping the target at arms-length, why?
TARGET
Who are the targets you’re currently looking at? How well do they fit into your growth strategy?
POTENTIAL
What is the full potential you could achieve with the deal? Is it primarily cost control or revenue growth? Is it tried and tested, or building something new?
ORGANISATION
How will your organisation react to the deal? Is your organisation people or process driven? How much autonomy is there and how do you make decisions?
TEAM
Who in your team do you trust to develop and deliver the plan? Why?
EXPERIENCE
How many deals have you been through recently? What has succeeded and failed in previous transformation programmes?
Gorillas are important to us. They are our fellow primates on our planet, and we believe it’s important how we treat our fellow beings on the Earth. Three-quarters of primate species are in decline, and about 60 percent are currently threatened with extinction.
We chose the gorilla to represent our brand as it helps us remember that we are emotional and irrational beings that have found themselves in a dominant position on the planet thanks to our ability to tell stories, develop myths and share common beliefs… all allowing us to collaborate with a much larger band of people.
The word ‘Humanity’ has synonyms such as compassion, brotherly love and philanthropy. We donate to the Dian Fossey fund. Please do anything you can to help.
We’ve delivered these deals, from being the single point of responsibility to making the coffee...
Who we are…
Ben de Haldevang
20 years of pre-deal planning, post merger integration and complex transformation projects across a range of sectors and geographies, including over 120 transactions.
Su Fei Lim
Pragmatic management consultant experienced in business change and transformations across Asia Pacific and across industry sectors. Expert in stakeholder management and communication.
Paul J Siegenthaler
Major business transformation programmes across Europe and North America as Managing Director. Lecturer on post-acquisition integration at HEC Paris, LSE and the University of Oxford.
Conrad Trinidad
An experienced business management and transformation leader with over 20 years of business and sales operations, project delivery, consulting experience in driving strategic, technology & business transformation initiatives globally and across APAC.
David Bryant
Operating at Board level and combining extensive ‘Big 4’ management consulting and senior management operational industry experience, David has led 10 major programmes over the past 12 years with an excellent track record of success.
David Boyd
Experienced business advisor delivering mergers and acquisitions for over 20 years with global NYSE, FTSE 100 and Private-Equity owned firms.
Location
Our footprint is truly global, we don’t have a limited number of offices and travel according to the needs of our clients. In the last three years we’ve delivered projects for clients in London, Paris, New York, Cologne, Singapore and Mumbai.
