PRACTICE: Mergers and Acquisitions
Burst capacity, backed by two decades of doing it at scale.
Strategy, targeted hunting, due diligence, and integration, led by operators who have done every HPE acquisition and integration for over twenty years.
Four PILLARS
How the practice is built.
PILLAR 01
M&A strategy
We help companies set an overall M&A strategy grounded in their specific situation. We analyze the build-versus-buy question and make sure the company is buying for the right reasons, not the available reasons.
PILLAR 02
Targeted hunting and vetting
Our practice is grounded in data. We build large data sets and search tooling to identify the right companies by type, size, and cultural fit for your portfolio and maturity. Vetting at this stage means only the right companies make it to due diligence.
PILLAR 03
Due diligence
We go deep across multiple categories: go-to-market, portfolio analysis, delivery and operations, scalability. Every line of the diligence is aligned to the synergy hypotheses, so the decision at the end is an informed yes or an informed no.
PILLAR 04
Post M&A integration planning and execution
The benefit of an acquisition is captured or lost in the first twelve months after close. Our team brings unparalleled operator experience from leading every acquisition and integration at HPE over twenty years.
Portfolio
What we cover.
Research assistance
IT and technology, product and service delivery, technical operations, support operations.
Marketing and selling
Collateral development, managed digital marketing, virtual CMO, sales operations, marketing and branding, talent and cost of workforce.
Product strategy
Product strategy, product requirements, definition and planning, services strategy, service delivery planning, market feedback, pricing methodologies, bundling strategies, SaaS operations, SaaS security and compliance.
In Practice
M&A strategy and target vetting.
A client engaged Purple Koru to set its M&A strategy based on critical mass and capability gap analysis. We built data and search tooling to identify and research targets, then led detailed due diligence across go-to-market, portfolio, delivery, and scalability. The client entered the due diligence stage with a curated list of targets aligned to the investment thesis.