Ver­tical Optim­iz­a­tion — Busi­ness Devel­op­ment & Tech­no­logy Deploy­ment Services

Mer­gers, Acquis­i­tions And Divestitures

Com­par­ing oranges and apples may not be such a good idea. How­ever, com­bin­ing apples and oranges could make for a won­der­ful fruit cock­tail. Some­times com­pan­ies have to merge with or acquire other entit­ies to advance their busi­ness interests. In some cases, they need to divest them­selves of cer­tain assets or interests. Whatever the case, we can help.

We believe that mer­ger or acquis­i­tion “should make sense to the counter-​parties”. Our team provides a vari­ety of ser­vices to help guide busi­nesses as the eval­u­ate their stra­tegic options. Here are a few of those services:

1) Invest­ment Briefs — This may be suf­fi­cient in many instances to give an investor a clear pic­ture of what is required. It out­lines what needs to be done and lays out the pos­sib­il­it­ies without the rigor of a full-​blown busi­ness plan.

2) Busi­ness Plans — These are detailed present­a­tions of the fin­an­cial, mana­gerial, oper­a­tional and com­mer­cial pro­spects of a ven­ture. More often than not, Ver­tical Optim­iz­a­tion provides intu­it­ive easy-​to-​use sens­it­iv­ity tools that make it easy for a pro­spect­ive investor (or seller as the case may be) to test the assump­tions implied in a busi­ness plan.

3) Asset & Invest­ment Valu­ation — How is that asset or invest­ment worth? How much should you put into (or expect to take out of) it? We can help with asset and invest­ment valu­ation by provid­ing clear, simple, unbiased eval­u­ations of an oppor­tun­ity using a vari­ety of tech­niques includ­ing very simple straight­for­ward eval­u­at­ive tech­niques as well as com­plex mod­el­ing and sim­u­la­tion techniques.

4) Risk Ana­lyt­ics — How much risk should one assume in a ven­ture? What are the oper­a­tional and fin­an­cial threats? Com­bin­ing a vari­ety of tools includ­ing the tra­di­tional meth­ods as well as [real] options pri­cing and other tech­niques, Ver­tical Optim­iz­a­tion can help you put an unam­bigu­ous num­ber on the value of an asset or the risk asso­ci­ated with a venture.

5) Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Valu­ation — This is one of the most dif­fi­cult — and con­ten­tious — aspects of an invest­ment. How much is an “idea” worth? What if it were pat­en­ted? What would it be worth then? We assist our cli­ents with intel­lec­tual prop­erty valu­ation to enable them enter into invest­ments with a clear sense of what the IP-​based assets are truly worth.

6) Feas­ib­il­ity Stud­ies — Should we or shouldn’t we? We can help fig­ure out the answer.….

7) Oper­a­tional Ana­lysis — This is one of our core areas. How well is that oper­a­tion being run? We’ll help you find out.

Call us at 1−888−506−3265 or send us an email for more inform­a­tion. We can help you with any of these stra­tegic undertakings.