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The speed of change and growth in prominence of technology is unprecedented. Within a short timescale, we’ve seen an evolution, from technology as an enabler of back-end processes, through to it underpinning most, if not all, of an organisation’s functions, and fully establishing itself as a key disrupter, differentiator, and revenue driver. Within the context of an M&A transaction – for buyers or sellers – this means technology now represents both a massive opportunity, and a risk of equal measure.


Utilising our global network of over 1,200 specialists, and with access to the breadth of Deloitte’s deep functional and sectoral expertise, we ensure you can critically evaluate the operational and technology risks and opportunities that matter, for informed decision making, negotiations, and strategic and financial value realisation, at deal speed.

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M&A Technology service offering

Deloitte’s M&A Technology team can support you on identification, protection, and delivery of technology and digital enabled value - during and after a transaction.
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Technology Due Diligence

Identifying technology enabled value potential and risks

Concerned about operational unknowns of a potential target?


Understand the target's technology capabilities, business alignment and value creation opportunities.


Value

  • Sets out an overview of technology landscape, architecture and technology delivery operating model and how this aligns to the business strategy, with a focus on technology spend, key projects, future investments, strategy, applications, infrastructure, security and management information
  • Combines deep technology expertise, combines specific sector knowledge with extensive insight into what matters to private and corporate investors
  • Provides comfort on technology and product cost-base, investment, and operational improvement plans via primary diligence and benchmarking.
  • Includes alignment with operations, commercial and financial findings
  • Identifies and synthesises technology operational, financial, and cost implications of the deal
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Cybersecurity Diligence

Ensuring the secure, vigilant and resilient enterprise across the transaction

Concerned about operational unknowns of a potential target?


Our Secure. Vigilant. Resilient. model provides a comprehensive set of service offerings to support your organisation’s M&A process throughout its complete lifecycle.


Value

  • Each phase of the transaction poses a different cybersecurity challenge in terms of strategic, technology, and transitional and operational risk. We help manage cybersecurity concerns across the transaction lifecycle, identifying key considerations for acquirers and target companies
  • Leverage our experience in Cyber Risk Advisory, along with our expertise in the M&A sphere to ensure seamless integration with the acquired businesses
  • Business-focused information security risk assessment providing Management and investors with a realistic view of the risk exposure and required security posture
  • Understanding of the cyber risk landscape from a business need perspective and identification of key risks and challenges in an M&A scenario
  • Understand the risk at an early stage of acquisition to enable effective decision making
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Digital Platform and Software Diligence

Understand the investment risks and opportunities in underlying digital assets

Concerned about technology unknowns of a potential target?


Understand the capabilities of digital products and platforms against claimed benefits, competitors’ offerings and market development potential.


Value

  • Understanding of the technology landscape, architecture and technology delivery operating model and how this aligns to the business strategy, with a focus on technology spend, key projects, future investments, strategy, applications, infrastructure, security and management information
  • Identification and evaluation of the risks and opportunities across the technology stack from development to deployment and integration
  • Clarification of the etensibility, maintainability, reliability, scalability, upgradability and security of the target's technology to undertsand the feasbility of the technology sto support the investments thesis and likely costs of future growth
  • Provides comfort on technology and product cost-base, investment, and operational improvement plans via primary diligence and benchmarking.
  • Includes alignment with operations, commercial and financial findings
  • Identifies+D11 and synthesises technology operational, financial, and cost implications of the deal
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Data and Data Services Diligence

Maximising sale value; minimising value leakage

Looking to carve-out a division or business unit? 


Providing you with insights around the target’s standalone cost base and complexity of separation.


Value

  • Documented separation challenges and risks to consider during negotiations and advance planning
  • Quantified sensitivities to standalone costs
  • Assessment and benchmarking of one-off separation costs
  • Transitional Services Agreement (TSA) preparation from the vendor
  • Deeper understanding of separation risks
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Sellside and Exit Readiness

Preparation for sale with a focus on technology and digital enabled value

Preparing to sell an asset with a technology enabled value story?


Reassure investors of the real extent of technology value creation opportunities and risks in your business


Value delivered

  • Assessment of your technology and digital capabilities to provide investor confidence, avoid deal drag and giving you strength in negotiations
  • Improved exit readiness, with consistent and clear information for buyers
  • Identification of technical risks, so that they can be remedied ahead of investor analysis
  • Identification of technology enabled opportunities to optimise upcoming exit.
  • Quantitative and qualitative technology value and upside identified and articulated for buyers
  • Clarity for buyers and maximised deal tension between competing bidders
  • Reduced management time demands and consistent view of technology capabilities, investment focus and business alignment

We can support Management and Investors through:

  • Exit readiness preparation: helping identify and build a programme early in the ownership of an asset to realise greater value at the exit
  • Vendor assistance: Supporting a seller and their management team in shaping and presenting the exit story, preparing information, and the technology function, for the sale process
  • Separation assistance: Delivered as part of vendor assistance, support for organisations in identifying separation challenges, and presenting the stand-alone cost base to buyers
  • Vendor due diligence/IPO: Working with the seller's management team to deliver an independent and robust assessment of the implications of technology on the seller's business plan
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Technology Divestiture Readiness, Separation and Carve-out

Accelerating tech separation in carve outs and divestitures

Looking to reduce the technology risk and increase investor confidence for carve-out of a division or business unit?


Providing you with insights around the target’s technology landscape, standalone cost base impact and complexity of separation.


Value delivered

  • Documented separation challenges and risks to consider during negotiations and advance planning
  • Provide potential investors with visibility and confidence on the technology separation journey from day one to end state solution realisation
  • Quantified sensitivities to standalone costs
  • Assessment and benchmarking of one-off separation costs
  • Transitional Service Agreement design, construction, costing, dependency and risks
  • Deeper understanding of separation risks and value creation/acceleration opportunities
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Technology Integration and synergies

Enabling technology to deliver the deal ambition and synergy targets

Worried about achieving the greatest value from an integration?


We can assist you in developing and validating the plan, focusing on key areas such as baselining, one-off costs, planning, and phasing.


Value delivered

  • Assistance with transaction vision from a technology perspective
  • Design of the technology solution for two businesses merging
  • Delivery of day one design and planning
  • Co-develop and manage the technology integration Technology integration, strategy and post-deal execution, cut over and testing
  • Develop synergy case and implementation plans
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Technology and Digital Value Creation

Unlock business agility and sustainable value through technology

Need to move technology from a business enabler to a value co-creator?


Enable Technology organisations build their strategies, guide their decisions, learn from the market, focus on differentiators, follow the data, plan for uncertainty, and set an actionable path forward.


Value delivered

  • Identification of shareholder value creation opportunities through technology strategy, cost optimisation, technology enabled innovation, digital architecture, and digital adoption
  • Optimisation and modernisation of technology operating, product, and service delivery models
  • An integrated approach for technology-led transformation, leveraging the unique breadth of the Deloitte capabilities where required
  • Clear data-driven choices about where to play and how to win – in order to drive growth and enterprise value
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Get in touch

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Mark Steele

Partner, M&A Technology

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