Accelerating Growth Through
Strategic Transactions & Transformation
Who We Are
Laird Partners provides Corporate, Strategy and M&A Advisory and leadership to accelerate business growth and achieve digital and business transformation by leveraging strategic transactions and new ventures.

We advise CEOs, senior management, boards and investors.
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We also provide interim leadership and project-based consulting.​
Our Focus
Delivering transformational growth outcomes can be difficult. Strategic transactions can accelerate business and technology innovation & growth, delivering digital-enabled transformation faster than organic strategies.

Our insights on Strategy, M&A and Transformation go deeper than typical advisors to bring a unique “whole lifecycle” approach, so that transactions align to strategy and deliver lasting success and required transformation outcomes.​
What We Do
  1. Strategy
    Strategy
    Corporate and business growth strategy advisory that accelerates organic growth and digital transformation by leveraging corporate transactions
  2. M&A
    M&A
    Corporate Development and M&A transaction advisory that maximizes deal value by taking a life-cycle approach and recognizing integration complexity
  3. Transformation
    Transformation
    Leadership advisory for digital and business transformation that builds and enhances stakeholder capabilities to deliver desired business outcomes
Our Services
Strategy

Growth strategy development
  • Core & adjacency strategy
  • Digital strategy
  • Transformation strategy
  • Vertical & horizontal integration
  • Offense vs. defense
  • Global market entry/exit & development

Corporate Development strategy
  • Build, buy, partner trade-off
  • Acquisitions
  • Divestitures & carve-outs
  • Strategic partnering
  • Joint ventures
  • Minority vs. control investments

Growth strategy review and alignment
  • Corporate & business strategy
  • ​Customer, marketing & sales strategy
  • Product and service strategy
  • Geographical strategy
  • Financial strategy
  • People strategy
  • Operations & Technology strategy​
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Strategic rationale and thesis development & testing
  • Deal thesis
  • Portfolio thesis
M&A

Deal sourcing
  • Inbound / reactive
  • Outbound / proactive

Due diligence
  • Commercial & contractual
  • Financial
  • People & HR
  • Operations & Technology

Valuation
  • Traditional & customer-based corporate valuation
  • Synergies & dis-synergies
  • Costs to realize synergies

Deal structuring, negotiation & close 
  • Deal structuring
  • Negotiation position development
  • Negotiation leadership & support
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Investment analytics & modeling
  • Commercial analytics
  • Financial analytics

Integration planning
  • Project planning
  • Financial planning
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Risk management
  • Risk identification & assessment
  • Risk mitigation
Transformation

Transformation Design & Planning
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Project and program design & planning
  • Governance design
  • Operating model design
  • Financial planning
  • Synergies planning
  • Integration planning

Transformation Leadership
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project and program leadership
  • Governance implementation​
  • Financial management
  • Integration Management Office (IMO) leadership
  • Change management
  • Communications management
  • Benefits management
  • Risk management
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Assessment & Review
  • Stakeholder evaluation
  • Project & program assessment
  • Investment evaluation
  • Benefits realization
  • Lessons learned