Corporate
Development & Finance

Corporate
Development & Finance

What We Do

We take an integrated view that links corporate strategy, financial strategy, transactions and a capital markets perspective to help executives and their teams create value. We also help companies improve investor relations and effectively respond to activist investors. As you make critical decisions about allocating resources and seizing opportunities, we can help you:

  • Understand what drives total shareholder return (TSR) in your industry and benchmark your company’s performance against peers, using our TSR diagnostic. We help you enhance your capital markets strategy by pinpointing the root causes of gaps between intrinsic vs. market values and identifying ways to close them. We show you how to use your balance sheet as a strategic weapon, and how to develop your equity story to communicate effectively with investors and analysts.
  • Master your M&A strategy across the entire process, from valuation considerations, due diligence and pre-announcement planning to merger integration, divestitures and separations, and support for selective parts of the IPO process. We have completed various M&A related projects; over the course of a decade, MMeliora Group supported integrations created roughly 18% higher shareholder returns than typical mergers, while Meliora Corp supported spin-offs achieved market cap increases 20% higher than the industry average.
  • Create and lead a world-class finance function that creates shareholder value by uniting strategy, business planning, resource allocation, performance management and zero-based budgeting. We also help CFOs and other senior executives build winning operating models. Our extensive benchmarking databases help you significantly improve your operating effectiveness and efficiency.

How we can help

Corporate Due Diligence

The best strategic acquirers know due diligence is critical and do it right. They smoke out the hidden upside of deals while maintaining a clear view of their risks. DeCalle Group Corporate Due Diligence provides a fact-based, rigorously quantified assessment that helps you ward off deal fever, spots synergies the market didn’t see and starts preparing you for integration long before your deal is inked.

Post-Merger Integration

Successful integration is the key that unlocks the full value of your deal. DeCalle Group Merger Integration helps you mitigate common risks and offers a systematic approach to managing change for your business, people and culture, ensuring results that exceed your deal expectations.

Divestitures

DeCalle Group Divestiture Mobilization ensures that companies realize the highest possible value from divestitures by preparing the asset for sale, running a low-risk carve-out program and shaping the remaining business to thrive.

Organizational Design & Operating Model

A well-designed operating model is the bridge that allows a company to turn its strategy into results. DeCalle Group Operating Model helps you clarify where and how critical work gets done in the organization in service of your overall strategy.

We help organizations create competitive advantages through strategic corporate finance. Every company wants to create strong and sustainable value for its owners. But that requires making intelligent, often subtle, trade-offs—between pursuing growth and focusing on margins, between reinvestment and shareholder payouts, and in how to allocate capital and other resources across the portfolio. Find out what it takes to build a strong business and get rewarded for it in the capital markets.

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We work with ambitious leaders who want to define the future, not hide from it. Together, we achieve extraordinary outcomes.