Our uniqueness
Viaduct Consulting is a strategy consultancy which helps clients make superior investment decisions and supports them to deliver value from these decisions for their investors. We combine insight into key commercial and operational issues gained from hands-on sector and functional expertise with unparalleled transaction and investment support experience. Our advanced programme management tools and methods help companies to achieve challenging objectives, particularly in complex mergers, carve-outs, separations and new market entrances. Our insight is based on a thorough understanding of the industry sectors with which we work, on bespoke detailed research and on our team's extensive experience of completed transactions.
As an independent firm we are free from any ‘Big 4' conflicts and can go that extra mile. We don't simply document the vision for the merger, we help make it a reality. We don't simply write operational due diligence reports, we support the organisation to deliver the synergies. We don't simply log operational issues in the integration risk register, we help to resolve them.
Our focus
We focus on helping to make transactions and investments successful for our clients. We concentrate on the key issues in specific sectors to provide support to those making investment decisions. We do not seek to be all things to all people, rather experts in our chosen fields. We deploy functional, transactional and operational experts to deliver successful acquisitions and disposals.
How we work with clients
We work alongside clients to help them make investment decisions, whether that investment decision is the acquisition of a business or company, a carve-out of non-core operations, the launch of a new product, or the entrance into a new market or geography. We then support investors and vendors assess the impact of planned operational and commercial developments on future financial performance. We build the bridge between global strategy and the operational actions required to implement it, through a structured and proven programme management methodology. We bring expertise and experience to complement our client's management's understanding of their business.
Satisfaction
Viaduct is a new consultancy and we undertook our first assignments in late 2007. Our early clients have been pleased with what we achieved for them. Our team brings a track record of providing an exemplary service as well as delivering results.
Representative clients
We seek to work with clients who wish to perform commercial or operational due diligence on investment decisions, or who wish to manage their integration, carve-out or separation to deliver their strategic objectives. Our team has supported some of the largest and most complex corporate mergers, carve-outs and separations worldwide. We have also worked across all phases of the deal cycle, from market and target assessment, to synergy case development and review, from integration planning and transition management to strategic transformation and benefits delivery. We have also supported large and medium-sized private equity houses in assessing investment targets and building compelling operational value improvement cases for their investment committees and capital providers.
Our people
Our teams consist of people with a strong track record in transactions complemented by deep expertise in specific disciplines, including transaction support, programme management, strategy, operations, functions and research expertise. We are fortunate, as part of MCG to leverage the experience of our other consultancies as appropriate.
What we are not
We are not finance or policy consultants, tax advisers or investment bankers.
How we charge
Initial discussions are free and without obligation. We generally charge on a time elapsed basis or by project phases.
Our challenge to clients
What types of acquisitions should you consider? What are the synergies from the deal? Are you confident that future performance forecasts will be achieved? Do the target businesses have the production capacity to achieve the financial plan? What are the risks associated with expansion into this market? How should the integration programme be structured and managed?
Head office
London +44 20 7710 5050
www.viaductconsulting.com