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Acquisition and Integration Consulting

Minimize risk, increase value, and make better deal decisions

CBS leverages its proprietary due diligence process to help clients swiftly identify key risks and opportunities in target acquisitions. We quantify mitigation costs and potential savings, providing a clear financial picture. Our acquisition and integration consulting team excels at crafting comprehensive 100-day go-forward plans and offers hands-on support to ensure seamless implementation, driving success from strategy to execution.

Acquisition and Integration Consultants with Knowledge and Expertise

CBS combines due diligence expertise, industry knowledge, and advanced systems to efficiently and thoroughly validate your deal thesis. With years of experience on both the buy and sell sides, our acquisition and integration consultants deliver clear, pragmatic insights that empower confident decision-making. 

  • Industry expertise with proven success in due diligence across diverse sectors, including consumer goods, food and beverage, industrial manufacturing, and aerospace and defense
  • Cost savings by uncovering millions in hidden costs to justify a lower purchase multiplier and support better purchase decisions
  • Integrity first with honest, transparent guidance focused on your success—if we can’t help you, we’ll be upfront about it

Due Diligence Expertise Coupled with Industry-Related Expertise

Our true differentiator is our exceptional team. We take pride in deploying seasoned, highly credible acquisition and integration consultants who excel at quickly grasping the strategic objectives behind each acquisition. Our experts go beyond surface-level assessments, diving deep to rigorously validate or thoughtfully challenge these strategies, ensuring outcomes that drive long-term success.

  • Seamlessly integrate into your advisor team interfacing with the target portfolio company with the ability to identify and capture improvements in operating profits and cash flow
  • Deploy with speed and purpose with knowledgeable resources, rapid and comprehensive business analysis, and a focus on critical issues identified in the deal thesis with keen attention for hidden issues
  • Provide credible reports with sufficient detail to support unbiased findings that quickly integrate into deal team’s financial committee final reports 

Your Trusted Advisor Throughout the Acquisition Life Cycle

CBS begins by gaining a deep understanding of your strategy or deal thesis for the acquisition. From there, we work efficiently and thoroughly through the entire process. Leveraging customizable templates and standardized workflows, our acquisitions and integrations consulting ensures that your timeline expectations are met without compromising quality. 

  • Due diligence
  • Risk and Opportunity Identification
  • Develop Post Aquisition Integration Plan
  • Execute Integration Plan

Achieving Results in Acquisition and Integration

Our operational due diligence through integration is a holistic review of a target company’s operations, encompassing everything from people and processes to technology and compliance. The benefits include:

  • Mitigate risk by identifying compliance issues and operational inefficiencies early
  • Make smarter decisions by gaining detailed insights into the target company’s operations in detail
  • Drive value by uncovering opportunities to optimize operations
  • Strengthen negotiating power with a detailed understanding of the target company’s operations
  • Accelerate improvement by starting to enhance operations post-acquisition
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Areas of Focus

  • Pre-LOI support
  • CIM review and impression
  • Operational due diligence
  • Full potential identification
  • Rapid value capture
  • 100-day integration / implementation planning and execution
  • Full integration planning and execution
  • Transformation of operations to lean / CI culture
  • Pre-divestiture operations analysis / sale readiness

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“From due diligence to divesting, CBS is our trusted adviser. They are strategic in partnering with our portfolio companies and have generated high returns on our investment.”

Managing Director

Private Equity