Life Sciences Mergers & Acquisitions
IT Strategies
Technology is integral to our daily activities in today’s business environment, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are commonplace. Therefore, ensuring synergies between buyers and targets for M&A success in the life sciences industry is critical. However, synchrony between technology services is an overlooked and vitally important piece of the puzzle. Analyses of overperforming deals and their return sector averages reveal that successors emphasise synchronising the IT landscapes of merging companies. Therefore, keeping IT strategies in the forefront of early-stage-post-merger planning will ensure your M&A growth and diminish the risk of failure.
Our experts at Arcondis specialise in implementing IT strategies, specifically in life sciences. Therefore, they are uniquely equipped with the field-specific know-how to integrate the latest technological advances into their M&A solutions, tailor-made for you!
Whether you are 1. in the process of either buying or devising divisions of a company or subsidiary assets; 2. looking to assess the impact of the impact of the acquisition on the IT application and infrastructure landscape, strategy, and ease of integration or separation; or 3. looking for help to execute the IT integration or separation, let us explain how we can help you as your partner.
IT Due Diligence & Prep Steps
We evaluate the acquired company’s technology to make optimal decisions on dealing with complements to your IT strategy and operations to realise synergies. In addition, we assess the divestment’s impact on target IT applications, infrastructure, and operations. Any IT challenges are addressed early in due diligence to provide valuable input on integration costs and practical realities.
Acquisition
In an acquisition case, we evaluate the target company’s technology to make optimal decisions about how the deal complements your IT strategy and operations to realise synergies.
Divestment
In a divestment case, we assess its impact on target IT applications, infrastructure, and operations.
Ensuring Day One Readiness
We ensure readiness from day one by enabling key systems and basic infrastructure to gain your organisation’s confidence by demonstrating your ability to execute on the first day of business. From the separation perspective, it enables a fast release of divested elements to shorten divestment and reduce complexity later.
IT Carve-Out / Post-Merger Integration Steps
By coordinating all steps from planning through execution and transition, we ensure a fast and smooth migration. We define a tailored IT strategy roadmap and migration plan early on, including all tasks, milestones, synergies, and costs with a scope beyond the merger. We define and execute an optimised governance structure and operating model to ensure business continuity. We achieve maximum value from the transaction by supporting your business departments with best-practice teams.
