HR due diligence services
We help you identify HR issues that affect price. We work to establish and understand critical HR and workforce issues early in the transaction, identify their relevance and ensure appropriate protections are built into documentation. We focus on the quality of earnings (income statement) and quality of assets (balance sheet) adjustments that impact the financial proposition underlying the transaction and ensure appropriate protections are built into transaction documentation. We can also provide early insight into culture and other challenges that may pose a threat to realizing value.
Areas of focus include:
Executives and equity
HR Regulatory issues
Employee relations
HR Function and processes
Deal support
Compensation and benefits
Workforce
Carve-out and synergies
HR pre-close services
We make sure you’ve got the right people and they’re focused on the right things. We work to identify key strategic HR decisions required based on the nature of the transaction, including leveraging HR due diligence to create a comprehensive project plan that we will manage and execute for each HR functional areas and for cross-functional HR activities. We help you to define your leadership team and organization structure and assess culture and change impact. And we tie financial implications back to the investment model developed in due diligence and manage the budget.
Areas of focus include:
Determine synergies
Hidden cost of people
Transfer of employees
Benefits, incentive and payroll
Organizational design and restructuring
Leadership, key employees, and skills
Pensions
Communication
Culture
Day one planning
HR post-close services
We focus on organizational values to reflect your purpose, mission, and vision. We work to deliver a targeted HR solution to ensure a smooth Day One and achieve deal goals. We support you across the harmonized HR strategy and organizational structure, HR technology, processes and infrastructure, policy, design/harmonization, workforce onboarding, culture-led transformation, stakeholder engagement, and communications workstreams.
Revising organizational values to reflect values, mission and vision:
Culture-led change
Reward and performance optimization
Stakeholder engagement and communications
Organization workforce and talent
HR transformation, technology, data and analytics
Industrial and employee relations