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ForgePoint Advisory

Services

Specialist support across the M&A technology lifecycle

Practical, hands-on guidance through technology due diligence, IT integration, separation, carve-outs, and ongoing advisory — designed to reduce risk and protect deal value.

Advisers reviewing technology due diligence findings on screens in a boardroom

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Technology Due Diligence

Clear, comprehensive assessments of technology environments for buyers, investors, and sellers.

What's included

  • Assess technology landscape, scalability, and risk (IT strategy and governance, IT organisation and operating model, infrastructure and operations, applications, architecture, data and AI, projects, IT financials including IT contracts)
  • Identify hidden liabilities (e.g., tech debt, vendor lock-in, license risks)
  • Evaluate cybersecurity posture and regulatory exposure
  • Estimate integration complexity and TSA needs

Ideal for buyers, investors, and sellers who need a clear view of technology value, risk, and readiness before a transaction.

Technology team working through an integration roadmap in a modern office

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IT Integration Services

Supporting buyers through PMI planning and execution, from integration strategy to technology delivery and value realisation.

What's included

  • Design target IT operating model blueprint and integration roadmap
  • Consolidate infrastructure, applications, and data
  • Harmonize identity, security, and collaboration tools
  • Data migration planning
  • Post-acquisition IT stabilisation
  • Integration PMO & change management
  • Realize synergies through rationalization and automation

Ideal for acquirers integrating a new business and needing a structured plan for technology consolidation and synergy realisation.

Advisers mapping a carve-out separation plan across applications and infrastructure

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IT Separation & Carve-Out Services

Helping organisations divest technology assets cleanly and efficiently.

What's included

  • Define IT disentanglement, separation strategy and standalone IT capabilities
  • Interim operating model for the carve-out entity
  • Enable Day-1 and Day-100 readiness for the carved-out entity
  • Manage data segregation and transfer planning
  • Plan application decoupling and infrastructure build-out
  • Design TSA structure and exit roadmap
  • Cyber and compliance re-baselining

Ideal for divesting organisations that need to separate technology assets and stand up an independent IT capability.

Boardroom discussion on technology strategy and M&A readiness

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Technology Advisory for M&A

Deal support for boards, founders, and investors.

What's included

  • Program review
  • Technology strategy alignment
  • IT cost modelling
  • Vendor & contract review
  • Digital capability assessment
  • Pre-deal readiness assessment

Ideal for boards, founders, and investors seeking independent technology guidance and advice on deals.