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M&A Advisory

Overview

From origination to exit, and working closely with owners, investors, and management teams, we provide a range of services to grow portfolio company value throughout the private equity ownership lifecycle.
Common Challenges faced by Our Clients
  • Niche Market Understanding:
    “We need to move fast, but we lack confidence in the true size, structure, and dynamics of the opportunity.”
  • Brand Portfolio Integration
    “We’ve acquired overlapping brands and don’t have a clear strategy for how they fit together.”
  • Customer Insight
    “We have a very limited view of what our customers think of us and our competitors, and how we can better meet their needs going forward.”
  • Ideal Offer Development
    ”What do our customers really want, and how can we design an offer that exceeds their expectations while differentiating from competition?”

We are Here to Help

M&A decisions often come with high expectations, but also a level of uncertainty — from picking the right markets to aligning brands, shaping the right offer, or knowing what customers really want. These gaps can stall growth or weaken the deal’s potential. Denneen helps cut through that uncertainty by bringing clarity with sharp insights, clear priorities, and practical strategies that drive value at every stage of ownership or investment. If you’re facing tough growth choices, we’re here to help you move forward with confidence.
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HOW WE CAN HELP

Commercial Due Diligence

Our commercial due diligence capabilities are grounded in the company’s core competencies in growth strategy. Gaining a deep and proprietary understanding of the commercial landscape, including the market, customers, and competitors to inform valuation.

We have the experience to assess and pressure test the seller’s growth strategies, initiatives and financial forecasts relative to market outlook and historic performance. Our commercial backgrounds and expertise also allow us to provide unique, value-added perspectives that go beyond what a team of research analysts can deliver.

Value Creation

Whether it’s working with the management team to build an enterprise-wide strategy to meet and exceed ownership expectations, or a targeted engagement to help identify and realize growth opportunities in specific areas of the business, Denneen offers tailored solutions to identify and realize a range of value creation opportunities.






Exit Planning

Demonstrating historical performance, updating the external market study, and refreshing the growth strategy with a 5 year forward view pre-exit, and outlining a credible growth trajectory are all critical valuation drivers that an engagement with Denneen can help to deliver.







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Strategy Adaptation in Turbulent Times
Amidst the unprecedented impact of Covid-19, we recognize that many of you are now faced with significant uncertainty, often requiring revisions, and in some cases, wholesale changes, to your goals and strategic choices. To help guide your path forward, we developed a new white paper: ‘Strategy Adaptation in Turbulent Times’. We hope that you find it an interesting read and relevant to your current and future strategy development and decision-making.

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A Framework for Strategy Assessment
The year 2020 was far from a normal one. Given the incredibly turbulent times caused by the global pandemic that continues to impact daily lives worldwide, many business leaders made different strategic choices that ranged from identifying and capitalizing on new sources of value to merely finding ways to stay in business.

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Considering ALL Topline Growth Choices
As a consultant at Denneen & Company, a firm that focuses on growth strategy, not surprisingly, we have many conversations with clients on potential ways to grow. While our approach is to assess the entire enterprise, identify growth opportunities, and collaborate with clients to develop a clear, choiceful, and achievable paths to growth, we often find that many companies aren’t fully considering, and in some cases are neglecting, the range of potential growth choices. For those interested in growing topline sales, to help ensure that you’re exploring all avenues to growth, outlined below are eleven different growth choices to consider in your strategic plan going forward.