Graeme Smith
London
The economic impact of COVID-19 is requiring corporates to focus on their core businesses now more than ever. Many will be reviewing their portfolios to focus on key growth areas. The aim being to allocate capital to core, value generating assets and conclude on appropriate strategies for non-core assets, which may well result in disposals. However, the current M&A market is subdued:
Achieving value in the current environment can be challenging. To address this issue, we have developed our Divestment Preparation Programme. This provides a highly structured approach utilising our operational and M&A transaction expertise to ensure that value is not left on the table during on the sale of a division and provides greater certainty on completing the deal.