Mergers & Acquisitions Support

Mergers and Acquisitions activities provide organisations and investors with a complex range of opportunities and risks. For the targets, a valuation may be constrained by lower levels of information and cyber security risks while for a strategic buyer or institutional investors it's important they make decisions based on an elevated understanding of the sellers previously unidentified or unquantified data or cybersecurity risks. To improve the outcomes in M&A activity, Cortida provide a range of information and cybersecurity assessment and support services that provide expert advice during the planning, due diligence and post completion stages.

Cortida's strategic consultant M&A Assessment and Support Services help sellers, strategic acquirers and institutional buyers answer the following:

Seller

• Will my critical data and systems support the strategy objectives of potential acquirers and investors?
• How will I know what security and data protection arrangements will constrain the valuation of my organisation?
• What security projects should be completed in preparation and which will add little additional value?
• How can I accelerate the required security / data projects?

Strategic Acquirer/Operators

• What level of security and data protection maturity exists within the target organisation
• What hidden or unquantified cybersecurity or data protection risks exist
• What would an appropriate security posture look like for an acquired or merged business

Institutional buyers/non operators

• What mechanism is needed to ensure that the organisations security posture is maintained through the investment period
• What additional security projects will increase the value of the asset at the end of the investment cycle
• How should improvement projects be progressed and by who