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Early Stage Corporate Development

We are a fractional corporate development partner for both discrete projects and long-term initiatives. We maximize best-practice, corporate development strategies for private companies, jumpstarting their inorganic growth.

Growth

Private Companies Can Access the Power of Inorganic Growth

Public companies leverage their balance sheets and pursue acquisitions to increase margins by consolidating competitors, enter new spaces to expand their total addressable market (TAM), and accelerate time-to-market with new product features via technology tuck-ins.

Private companies can reap these benefits from M&A initiatives – and more –  increasing revenue scale, demonstrating thought leadership, and signaling a strong presence to prospective customers and investors, among others.

Acceleration

Let our experience accelerate your transactions

Whether you are a first-time acquirer, or you and your team members have experience in M&A; at ESCD we help off-load the time-consuming, detail-oriented activities – accelerating timelines, removing obstacles, and reducing uncertainty around transacting. All the time leveraging industry best-practices. We bring more than 16 years of experience sourcing and executing transactions with top-tier strategic acquirers, with over $2.5 billion of aggregate deal value. 

Strategy

Initiate an M&A practice before hiring a Corporate Development team

You do not have to build out a full time M&A practice – you can scale it as you go. Our methodology uses industry best practices to set you up to succeed:

Flesh out your M&A strategy:

  • Document and test-stress your strategic rationale for inorganic activity
  • Select the inorganic growth strategy that best meets your goals: partner, acquire, joint development, joint venture, among others
  • Determine the profile for partners and target acquisitions
  • Identify potential targets and compile critical information
  • Evaluate and rank potential targets

Preparation

Prepare to transact before a deal comes along

Together we will customize:

  • Dry powder analysis (debt capacity, cash available)
  • Form Letters (Letter of Intent, Indication of Interest, etc.)
  • Board Presentation Templates
  • Financial Models
  • Project Management Tools