Creating lasting transaction value

Make confident decisions across acquisitions, disposals, investments and other strategic transactions. Baringa brings commercial, operational and people expertise together to help you assess opportunities, manage risk and complexity, and realise lasting value.

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How can you ensure an M&A transaction creates lasting value?

Realising value from M&A requires the right decisions throughout the deal lifecycle. We help you understand the market, identify the right targets, assess opportunities and risks through buy- and sell-side due diligence, and realise deal value through effective integration or separation.

Our experts work alongside your teams to turn strategy into implementation, support growth and deliver lasting value.

Our Transaction Advisory Services

Transaction advisory

Market mapping and target selection, buy and sell-side due diligence, supporting carve-outs, post-merger integration, and wider M&A activities.

We work with investors and corporates to help them make sense of a dynamic, competitive landscape, and guide you through the deal lifecycle from start to finish.

To do that, we:

map the market and support target selection
conduct buy and sell-side due diligence
support carve-outs, post-merger integration, and wider mergers and acquisition (M&A) activities.

Growth strategy

Advising on organic and inorganic growth, supporting ‘buy and build’ strategies, formulating market entry approaches, and devising 100-day plans.

We find new ways to create value in your existing markets and customer base, and show you how you can grow by investing in new markets and capabilities.

To do that, we:

advise on organic and inorganic growth
support ‘buy and build’ strategies
formulate market entry approaches
devise 100-day plans.

Integration, Separation, and Value Realisation

Delivering integrations and separations that protect transaction value, modernise operating models and establish effective future-state organisations.

We help clients deliver their most complex transactions, ensuring that maximum value is realised, whilst establishing an approach that is tailored to each unique business and roadmap across separation, acquisition and integration. We support our clients to:

develop integration and separation blueprints to stablise and protect transaction value
redefine and modernise their post-deal operating model
build the future state organisation, including organisational design and legal entity structuring
establish and run a transaction delivery office

Environmental, social and governance (ESG)

Assessing climate risks across your portfolio, conducting ESG due diligence, and providing ESG advisory for portfolio companies.

We support investors and corporates with their ESG agenda, helping you meet your commitments to regulators and stakeholders while finding new opportunities for value creation.

To do that, we:

● conduct ESG due diligence
● assess climate risks across your portfolio
● provide ESG advisory for portfolio companies.

Our Insights

People are the hidden value lever in consumer goods M&A

How leaders can protect transaction value by engaging the organisation early, deliberately and practically.

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The AI-Powered Integration Office

Discover how AI is transforming M&A integration, helping consumer goods businesses accelerate value delivery, reduce risk and improve decision-making.

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After the applause: where M&A deals actually succeed or fail

For all of the hype around M&A deals, research indicates 70–90% of deals fail to meet their strategic or financial objectives.

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Our Experts

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Chetan Chhatwal

Partner, expert in Transaction Advisory and Growth Strategy

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Becks Grainger

Partner, expert in Consumer Products and Retail

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Jill Hitchen

Partner, expert in Life and Pensions

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Ben Monks

Partner, expert in Enterprise Value Creation

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Frequently Asked Questions

How can a transaction advisor help maximise value from an M&A transaction?

A transaction advisor can help identify and protect the sources of value throughout the deal lifecycle. This includes testing the investment case, validating synergies, identifying risks through due diligence, and translating deal strategy into a practical integration or separation plan. Defining value drivers early helps you focus decisions and delivery on the outcomes that matter.

How can we reduce the risk of an M&A transaction failing to deliver its expected value?

Successful M&A requires a clear focus on execution as well as the deal itself. Early integration planning, realistic synergy assumptions, clear governance and disciplined value tracking can help protect value. Leadership alignment, operating model decisions, customer impact, talent and operational continuity should also be considered as part of transaction planning.

How can AI improve M&A due diligence and integration?

AI can support faster analysis and decision-making across due diligence and post-merger integration. It can help teams analyse large volumes of information, identify patterns and risks, track synergies and dependencies, and improve access to critical information. Used alongside experienced transaction expertise and appropriate governance, AI can support more informed and efficient deal execution.

When should post-merger integration planning begin?

Integration planning should begin before the transaction completes. Early planning helps clarify Day 1 priorities, test synergies, identify dependencies and align stakeholders around the value case. It can also help reduce disruption to customers, employees and operations as the organisations come together.

How is Baringa’s approach to transaction advisory different?

Baringa combines transaction advisory, industry and functional expertise to help clients connect deal strategy with delivery. We support clients across the transaction lifecycle, from market assessment, target selection and due diligence through to integration, separation and growth strategy. Our teams work alongside yours to address the commercial, organisational, technology and operational considerations that influence value realisation.

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