HAMILTON BAILEY

• Detailed profiles of likely acquisition targets

• Proven approach to identifying captive entities suitable for break-out
    and commercialisation
            o support
            o front/middle/back office functions
            o on/near/offshore entities

• Pre-deal support
            o Synergy identification and evaluation
            o Business value dependencies
            o IT/IS impact analysis and countermeasures
            o Risk assessment across all fields commercial, technical, cultural
            o Transitional and / or transformational modelling and preparation
            o Business impact, scenario planning, risks and options
            o Financial re-engineering analysis
            o Due diligence actions and program

• Transition support
            o Transition planning
            o Synergy definition, quantification and preparation, governance,
                reporting, timing, measurement and tracking approaches
            o Early savings realisation plan
            o Truing up accountability
            o Change management

• Post-deal support
            o Extra synergy identification, evaluation, costing and timeframes
            o Delivering on New Business model and vision
            o Synergy tracking (ensuring key revenue and cost metrics follow the
                defined approach as well as new criteria’s impact of benefit collection)
            o Matching business demands to service and support model structures
                realigning where necessary. Regular review model.

• Disposals support
            o Evaluation of logical and physical splitting of service provision
                (infrastructure, licenses, people, applications, etc)
            o Impact on costings and efficiency for remains services (sub-optimal
                sizing solutions and strategy)
            o Integration cost model for the new buyer(s)

• Typical M&A / disposal support assignments
            o Splitting off of non-core service towers
            o Market consolidation support
            o Client integration underwriting
            o Strategy for facing-off to market makers and analysts regarding benefit
                collection expectations versus reality
            o Stakeholder and shareholder communications planning and delivery
            o Value for money audit and on-going measurement and reporting