People, Rewards, Change and Communication by
Strategic Acquisition Team
Strategic Acquisition Team offers strategic human capital consultancy services to maximize deal value. Human resource concerns are critical to a successful transaction and strategically integrating employees into the company. The Strategic Acquisition Team assists businesses in enhancing HR’s contributions to attaining overall corporate and transactional goals and fostering deal success.
We ensure complete incentives are maximized, growth and cost synergies are realized, and change communication is encouraged. Human capital financials reflect in the deal price, through the entire transaction lifecycle, from initial targeting and due diligence through integration planning, post-merger integration, and execution. Strategic Acquisition Team integrated M&A methodology assists businesses in achieving deal success.
What are Transaction Solutions Services
Human Capital Diligence
Human capital diligence is a strategic approach to human capital across the deal lifecycle. Strategic Acquisition Team Human Resources Due Diligence solutions are designed to assess the target’s current employee benefit plans, personnel, incentives and benefits programs, and HR procedures, including red flags, timetables, and benchmarking. In addition, we assist clients in locating pertinent information required from the seller, analyzing data within the confines of the agreement, and managing timeframes and communication.
We evaluate the target organization’s HR and benefits programs to quantify financial liabilities and compliance risks. We can help you bargain for lower prices by adjusting the financial model. For early integration planning, we assist in locating synergies or dis-synergies. We assist firms in gaining insightful understandings of people-related hazards and obligations in crucial areas that can make or break the transaction by assisting them in the:
Pay the Right Price
Obtain a clear financial input and a clear assessment of risks, obligations, and prospects, and these things will help you make sure the buyer pays the right price for the company being bought.
Align Strategic Objectives
Recognize the particular ways in which the transaction advances the long-term and overall corporate strategy.
Retain Key Talent
As early as possible, identify key talent, assess retention risks, and estimate retention costs.
Shape Purchase Agreement
Examine the conditions of Target’s retirement, benefits, and incentive programs to determine whether additional expenses or ramifications could affect the deal’s price and conditions.
Analyze the employment terms and conditions.
Review executive compensation contracts and collective bargaining agreements to comprehend potential triggers for a change in control and the economic effects of unexpected payments.
Understand Global Considerations
With the help of our specialists worldwide, gain essential insights on cross-border considerations and national legal requirements.
Human Capital Due Diligence
Key Activities
- Organize your activities around company strategies and synergy goals.
- Programs should be summarized, liabilities and costs calculated, and integration alternatives identified.
- Analyze the management and organization of human resources.
- Legal entities, employment transfers, and labor difficulties
- Examine the workforce requirements and the staffing plan.
- Analyze cultural differences and gaps.
- Decide on and set up crucial human capital indicators.
Key Results
- The entire transaction model anticipates and accounts for human resource expenditures.
- The efficient execution of human resource policies, salary, and benefit plans
- Seamless provision of services and activities for human resources
- Improved capacity for leadership.
- Organizational integration and cultural alignment with deal objectives
- Maintain your talent and leadership.
- Improved capacity for change management.
- Align human resource goals to promote expansion and cost savings.
People Integration
It strengthens the links between your human resource strategy, deal objectives, and organizational goals.
The hardest part of a deal may be integrating individuals and cultures. Companies must holistically integrate and manage human capital to realize a deal’s full potential.
During integration, Strategic Acquisition Team assists customers in addressing significant human capital concerns that contribute to successful business outcomes. The following are some ways that Strategic Acquisition Team assists clients with addressing crucial human capital issues:
Day 1 Readiness & Strategic Planning
Establish priorities for people integration that align with the needs of employees and the business.
Project Management
Help you achieve results effectively and efficiently by utilizing Transaction Manager, a proprietary tool developed by Strategic Acquisition Team, and skilled global and regional HR project managers.
Plan Harmonization
Choose the best human resources and overall rewards strategies for the organization’s future.
Global Considerations
Recognize the effects on employment transfers as well as national laws and regulations.
Organization & Talent Alignment and
Synergy Realization.
Using Transaction Manager, a solution developed exclusively for Strategic Acquisition Team, you can quickly find the correct structure, leaders, and talent and pinpoint areas where efficiencies exist.
Culture & Change Management
To optimize organizational performance, maintain staff engagement, and progress toward the intended results through effective communication.
Human Capital Divestitures
Investors, boards, and executives can realize greater valuations, meet higher bottom-line financial targets, and align the firm with their strategic objectives by separating a company’s operations through a divestiture. However, the procedure can be complicated and requires considering various elements, including financial, risk, tax, legal, human resources, and capital markets. In addition, the degree of integration between the firms before the deal, the scope of post-transaction interactions between the businesses, and the transaction’s structure all play a significant role in the issues.
Strategic Acquisition Team solves a wide range of human capital difficulties that result from a divestiture for strategic buyers, financial purchasers, or a new organization to help our clients succeed.
Strategic Acquisition Team Human Capital Divestiture Solutions include:
Business Valuation
Create an integrated strategy that synchronizes the terms and conditions of the human capital with the offering memorandum, pro forma financials for the human capital, adjustments to the business standalone financial statements, the Sale & Purchase Agreement and Employee Matters Agreement, management presentations, and the negotiation strategy.
Leadership Participation
Implement a retention and incentive plan for leaders aligned with transactional goals.
Internal Due Diligence
Identify the population by country, the employing legal entities, the terms and conditions of employment, retirement, and other liabilities, including funding and book reserve status, workforce separation risks and obligations, potential curtailment, and other charges to gain or loss on the sale, and the risks and obligations associated with workforce separation.
Due Diligence Data Room
Collect and add to seller data rooms the HR, Executive Compensation, Compensation and Benefits, and, where appropriate, business- and country-specific programs sponsored by the company. You should also respond to buyer inquiries and risk assessments.
Sales Arrangement Discussions
Review the seller’s first acquisition agreement for the terms relating to transition services, no-hire and non-solicit safeguards, employee matters, the conduct of business between sign and close, and representations and warranties. Additionally, we support buyer or seller negotiations.
Change and Communication
Create an announcement plan and rollout, consider the need for regular staff updates, establish communication requirements relevant to each country, and put mechanisms in place for handling inquiries and concerns.
Transition Planning and Separation Support
Establish a separation strategy, identify global HR concerns, and assist in separating the divested firm smoothly with the required standalone setup or HR transition services agreements, as appropriate.
Organisational & Talent Planning
Organizations need to quickly put the proper structure, leaders, and talent to find efficiencies and realize synergies. They also need to rationalize and forecast their use of human resources. Our Strategic Acquisition Team Transaction Manager tool offers an integrated end-to-end web-based platform solution that boosts and accelerates value creation for your organizational and personnel planning, complementing our consulting skills.
Strategic Acquisition Team TransAction Manager™ provides the following business benefits:
- Rapid headcount-based run-rate cost synergies that produce long-term savings.
- Access to one source of truth for organizational and talent planning, removing the need for ongoing fire drills using spreadsheets and expediting planning and synergy savings.
- HRIS systems have data that is refreshed daily
to increase accuracy and efficiency. - More substantial and reliable leader responsibility and visibility about budgets for planned and actual headcount.
- Positions and personnel match the operating strategy for the future.
- Support for measuring and reporting needs in finance and human resources.
- Advanced reporting and insights are available on demand.
Total Rewards Strategy
To ensure that your human capital strategy is connected to business goals and a company’s employee value proposition, it is essential to have a properly defined and coordinated total rewards strategy.
Strategic Acquisition Team creates programs that:
- Specify a clearly stated total rewards philosophy and approach to assist businesses in achieving this alignment.
- Reflect on the entire value of rewards for a critical talent pool.
- Consider how staff members will respond to new or modified programs.
- Offer data-driven decision-making for the development and implementation of complete rewards programs.
- Limit expensive but ineffective programs.
The worldwide human capital experts at Strategic Acquisition Team are committed to assisting businesses in developing a comprehensive total rewards plan and program to support their goals. Our data-driven strategy uses all Strategic Acquisition Team’s benchmarking tools and datasets. As a result, we can harness subject matter experts across a wide variety of total rewards disciplines, including communication and EVP development, thanks to a team of professionals devoted to assisting organizations in designing a comprehensive total rewards strategy and program to match their goals.
Strategic Communication and Change
It is essential to make sure that communication and change management needs identification early to create strategies and execution plans that keep employees informed, active, and productive throughout the lifecycle of a change and move everyone in the organization toward the desired outcomes,
Strategic Acquisition Team Communication and Change Solutions supports you through:
Analysis and Discovery
Through a thorough grasp of underlying requirements, issues, and views, the communication and change management professionals at Strategic Acquisition Team assist organizations in identifying the root of their communication and change management demands using:
- Interviews with leaders and stakeholders.
- Research on the audience and focus teams.
- Analysis of communication and experience.
Strategy, Planning, And Execution
Once the requirements and viewpoints for communication and change management have been identified, examined, and comprehended, the Strategic Acquisition Team is responsible for team communication and change management can create comprehensive strategies and specific execution plans, such as:
- Experience mapping.
- Change management and multi-channel communication.
- Strategic substance and messaging.
- Training for managers, employees, and leaders.
- Innovative branding and approach.
- Definition and evaluation of culture.
- Work-life strategy and design.
- Communication measurement.
Our team of communication and change management professionals provides our team’s breadth and depth of knowledge in people-related communications. We know how to manage change and effectively communicate in highly technical and complicated human capital sectors, including overall incentives, culture, employment, labor relations, HR programs and processes, and organizational planning. To more effectively design our strategy and execution plans throughout transactions and transformations, our tools and processes ensure that thorough discovery and analysis are upfront. Our flexible assistance methodology ensures that we provide the kind of communication and change management support you need by ensuring that our recommendations are appropriate for your organization and your circumstances. We apply rigor, innovation, creativity, and insights to every project we work on, giving you the best guidance uniquely suited to your culture, needs, and difficulties.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is Human Capital Due Diligence?
Human capital due diligence is the personnel, workforce profiles, skills, related agreements, salary, benefit plans, liabilities, HR policies and compliance, organizational architecture, and organizational culture are some of the subjects for evaluation in a merger or acquisition.
How does One Conduct Human Capital Due Diligence?
The HR due diligence checklist includes the following:
- Current staff overview.
- List every employee, their names, jobs, and lengths of service at the organization.
- Review of target company HR policy.
- Policies surrounding absenteeism, discipline, sick leave, maternity leave
- Review of HR legal and compliance issues.
- Review of HR benefits.
What are the Elements of Human Capital?
The essential elements of human capital are:
- Skills, Qualifications, and Education.
- Work Experience.
- Social and Communication Skills.
- Habits and Personality Traits.
- Individual Fame and Brand Image
Your Trusted human capital Advisor
At Strategic Acquisition Team, our highly skilled team applies expertise in corporate finance, litigation, M&A, capital markets, and risk to structure solutions that reduce costs, boost margins, and strategically manage capital. From addressing risks that negatively affect a balance sheet to realizing efficiencies for your business or portfolio companies
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