Strategic Advisory Services
M&A Support



De-risk and maximize the returns from your M&A activity with research-based insights from VDC. Leverage our decades of experience supporting technology companies’ M&A activities across their entire M&A process. From your investment thesis to target identification and commercial due diligence, engage VDC to drive a step-change in your M&A results.

M&A Activities

  • Target Company Identification & Profiling - Maximize your target company consideration-set through our creative thinking and broad view of the marketplace and ecosystem. Then let us help you focus your efforts through carefully researched company profiles, ratings and ranking methodologies that reveal targets that are the best fit given your strategy, objectives, and capabilities.
  • Target Company Commercial Due Diligence - Uncover latent enterprise value and avoid bad deals through a comprehensive analysis of a specific target’s market position, including analysis of customer experience, strength of its product portfolio, depth and breadth of partner relationships and more.
  • Investment Thesis & Value Proposition Testing - Develop, test, and refine your market-driven investment thesis through a consulting engagement that pressure-tests your ideas with actual customers and prospects to ensure the whole is really more than the sum of the parts.
  • Market Opportunity Analysis - Deeply understand the opportunities, challenges and risks associated with entering a new market through a strategic acquisition. Gain a clear competitive advantage through a comprehensive analysis of technology trends, emerging customer requirements, evolving distribution models, go-to-market strategies, the competitive landscape and more.



    M&A Support Services Case Study

              Learn how we helped
a leading global IT consultancy
find the right acquisition
target and accelerate the deal

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Tap into a wealth of M&A support experience

  • Decades supporting technology vendor M&A
  • Technical depth to explore target’s ecosystem
  • Business savvy to engage with your M&A team
  • Research expertise to generate actionable insights
  • Creative thinking to bring fresh ideas to your deal


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