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Strategic Consulting
Acquisition
Essentials: risks arising from an acquisition increase with the amount of answering "Yes":
- Is the business area new in which the acquired company does business?
- Is the country new in which the acquired company has his headquarter?
- Are the revenues that are to be acquired higher than 10%, 25%,50% or more than 50% of the actual revenues?
- Will be the the quota of own capital fall below 25%, 20%, 15% or below 10% after acquisition?
- Did the company to be acquired come lately or was checked for long?
- Are there any substantial deviations between statements before and results after financial due diligence?
- Are there any substantial deviations between statements before and results after cultural due diligence?
- Are there any substantial deviations between statements before and results after legal due diligence?
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Consulting Topics: Consulting costs will rise when the acquisition project is not prepared well!
- Is there any experienced-in-acquisition staff of the buyer?
- Is the acquisition deducted from strategic considerations of market and company analysis?
- Does the Board support the project?
- Are the company attorneys familiar with acquisition projects?
- Is the principal bank able to finance the deal?
- Is there professional staff to work fulltime for the deal?
- Are the expectations of the company staff to be acquired positive?
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