Navigating the complex world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures requires a specialized approach. At GEP, we understand the challenges businesses face — from spend harmonization and clean room data handling to vendor and contract management. The ultimate goals? Seamless integration, achieving sustainable synergy value and expanding market share.
GEP's strengths lie in identifying substantial synergy savings and facilitating a frictionless merger of people, processes and technology. We know that smooth integration or separation is critical for risk mitigation. Thus, we balance advanced AI-powered software, comprehensive strategic consulting services, and a passionate team with unmatched proficiency as your unique needs dictate. Our mission is simple: to transform businesses digitally and maximize M&A-driven value so that the merged entity flourishes, exceeding the sum of its parts.
Our Offerings: Comprehensive M&A Services for Transformative Value Creation
GEP offers end-to-end M&A services designed to unlock significant value from day one. Our Integration Management Office (IMO) ensures seamless collaboration and strategic alignment, from initial due diligence to post-merger integration.
Clean Room
GEP helps clients establish a secure cloud-based environment that facilitates safe and efficient information exchange between merging entities. Our clean room setups are enhanced with AI technologies to ensure compliance and speed without sacrificing security
Rapid Synergy Identification and Execution
With a focus on speed to execution, GEP deploys a team of seasoned experts and cutting-edge AI-first proprietary software to swiftly identify and realize procurement and operational synergies. Our approach is tailored to accelerate impact and drive quick wins.
Organizational Design
We develop and implement a new organizational blueprint for supply chain and procurement that aligns with strategic business goals, ensuring the right capabilities are in place from day one.
Divestiture Strategy and Execution
GEP supports clients through strategic divestitures, optimizing operational transitions to preserve value and ensure continuity.
Post-Merger Capability Building
Beyond integration, GEP empowers clients with essential skills and tools to build a robust, unified company culture and operational framework, ensuring sustainable success in the newly formed enterprise.
ESG Synergy & Impact Acceleration
GEP helps you aggregate emissions baseline data, identify accelerated synergy opportunities to reduce GHG emissions and conduct contract harmonization and vendor rationalization to enable you to deliver against ESG targets.
Why Choose GEP for M&A?
- Broad M&A experience: Our rich M&A expertise spans industries and deal types
- End-to-end expertise: We consider risks, implications and best practices across the M&A lifecycle
- AI-first strategy: Contract analysis and supplier/contract/terms synergies
- Sustainable M&A capabilities: We empower clients to build lasting internal M&A capabilities for future success
- Holistic M&A results: Our extensive knowledge across disciplines ensures strategies lead to real-world outcomes
- Advanced Technology Integration: Our technology framework supports end-to-end project management, including robust AI synergy assessment, execution and risk management as well as AI-enabled clean room technology platforms to enhance M&A outcomes
- Pragmatic implementation: Decades of experience have refined our transformation plans to guarantee impactful results
- Deep industry insight: We tap into our global network of experts across various industries, ensuring your M&A strategy not only succeeds but also provides a competitive advantage
Our Track Record
GEP is proud to have helped Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries smoothly integrate their supply chain and procurement functions at all stages of an M&A deal.
Our track record includes:
- Established a clean room and governance model for a large international packaging company, defining a unified spend taxonomy with AI classification, and delivering over $120 million in savings across multiple categories.
- For a global manufacturing and pharma company, developed a comprehensive synergy assessment and execution plan across various service categories, achieving more than 7% in savings and ensuring business continuity during transitions.
- Integrated people, process, technology, and governance for a global chemicals company, creating a $250 million synergy savings roadmap over 18 months, which included a 68% supplier consolidation.
- Accelerated synergy capture for a specialized biopharma company, managing over $10 billion in annual spend and delivering $500 million in savings over three years, achieving a 15x return on investment.
- Managed a divestment engagement for the carve-out of a large business unit for a global agrochemical company, conducting the separation of more than 7,000 contracts, establishing risk management processes, and delivering $55 million in de-synergies within six months.
Spotlight
Amol Jawale
Amol is a Vice President of Consulting at GEP. He is responsible for leading global teams and building long-lasting strategic client relationships for GEP’s Fortune 500 Pharma & Life Sciences clients. Amol has vast experience in leading engagements focused on procurement strategy, delivery management, and competitive assessment and formulating business cases with C-Suite stakeholders to enable sustainable value creation.
A seasoned procurement and supply chain professional, Amol has led several large-scale global transformation projects involving supply chain optimization…
