M&A advisory

PTOLEMUS has a long history in M&A advisory consulting for both trade and financial investors, helping them to identify, assess, execute and integrate potential investments:

  • Venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) firms as well as hedge funds: Advent International, Amadeus Capital Partners, Amundi, Apax Partners, Ardian, Atlantis Vest, Bain Capital, Baupost, Capvis, Cinven, Crédit Agricole, CVC Capital Partners, Disruptive Capital Partners, FSI, Guardian Capital, Hellman & Friedman, Hutton Collins, Investcorp, Kamet Ventures, KKR, Leonardo & Co, Montezemolo & Partners, New Amsterdam Growth Capital, Palamon, Pamplona, Renova Group, Rothschild Capital Partners, Silver Lake, Three Hills Capital Partners, Time for Growth, Thoma Bravo, Vecturis Equity, etc.
  • Mobility industry stakeholders such as Abertis, Axxès, Bridgestone, Brightmile, Cihon, Concar, Edenred, Egis Projects, ESRI, Fleet Complete, Hitachi, Intek Group, Neology, Skytoll, ST Engineering, TDF, WEX, etc.

For our clients, PTOLEMUS is the end-to-end advisory partner in the mobility and transportation markets that can assist investors across all steps of the M&A process:

  • Strategy & market screening: market & competition analysis, technology insights, ecosystem dynamics, strategic development, business Plan, M&A target detection & evaluation
  • Vendor or buyer due-diligence: deep-dive on target business models, benchmark with market state-of-the-art solutions, business plan revised-case analysis, SWOT, first valuation, risks and mitigation strategies
  • Sale & fund raising mandates: business plan review, initial evaluation of investors’ appetite, structuring of the sale / fund raising process, writing of the teaser document and Information Memorandum, process letters, outreach to potential investors / acquirers, etc.
  • Transaction: data-room analysis, business model update, business plan review, synergies plan, valuation, management and organisation, cost reduction plan, integration plan
  • Post M&A integration: integration priorities, 100-day plan, synergies plan, technology convergence plan, integration management and steering programme.

Our positioning upstream & downstream of M&A transactions is truly unique in the mobility market place. PTOLEMUS offers and brings you unparalleled M&A experience in the transportation sector with:

  • More than 15 years of full focus on the connected mobility & transportation markets;
  • Databases and bottom-up market forecasts on over 85 mobility and transportation markets;
  • The experience of over 50 M&A assignments;  
  • The presence of senior advisors with decades of experience on both the advisory and operational sides of M&A consulting.

An example of our work, the sale of London-based Driving Risk Management provider Brightmile, is described here.

We let one of our clients, Singapore-based ST Engineering, conclude:

« PTOLEMUS Consulting Group supported us in the commercial due diligence for the acquisition of TransCore. Their team demonstrated commitment and dedication. We were able to leverage on both their deep expertise of the global tolling & ITS industries and outstanding analysis to achieve a good outcome. »

Men Leong Chew, President
Urban Solutions ST Engineering

Interested to know more on how we can help you? Please contact us at [email protected].