M&A Screening

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Does this opportunity justify full diligence and execution cost?

M&A Screening tests the transaction thesis before significant diligence, advisory and negotiation costs are incurred.

What Zygraen Assesses


  • Thesis & Fit: Strategic rationale, transaction route, market and target landscape.

  • Financial Signal: Earnings, liquidity, debt, capital needs and downside exposure.

  • Target Risk: Ownership, integrity, operating quality and visible legal-corporate issues.

  • Readiness: Information gaps, diligence questions, conditions and specialist workstreams.

Decision Output


  • Screening memorandum.

  • Preliminary risk matrix.

  • Information request list.

  • Conditions map.

  • Go / conditional / no-go view.

  • Recommended diligence path.

Work process

A clear process that turns strategy into results

Our consulting approach follows a structured framework designed to understand your business, identify opportunities, and implement solutions that create measurable impact.

Discovery & Assessment

We begin by learning about your business, goals, challenges, and current processes. This stage includes stakeholder discussions, data review, and operational analysis.

Research & Analysis

Strategy Development

Execution & Optimization

Discovery & Assessment

We begin by learning about your business, goals, challenges, and current processes. This stage includes stakeholder discussions, data review, and operational analysis.

Research & Analysis

We evaluate market conditions, competitors, customer behavior, and internal performance to identify gaps and growth opportunities.

Strategy Development

Based on insights, we create a tailored strategy outlining priorities, timelines, and measurable objectives aligned with your business goals.

Execution & Optimization

Our team supports implementation, monitors progress, and refines processes to ensure improvements are effective and sustainable.

Discovery & Assessment

We begin by learning about your business, goals, challenges, and current processes. This stage includes stakeholder discussions, data review, and operational analysis.

Research & Analysis

We evaluate market conditions, competitors, customer behavior, and internal performance to identify gaps and growth opportunities.

Strategy Development

Based on insights, we create a tailored strategy outlining priorities, timelines, and measurable objectives aligned with your business goals.

Execution & Optimization

Our team supports implementation, monitors progress, and refines processes to ensure improvements are effective and sustainable.

Executive Decision Workshop

A structured management session - after a Zygraen Deliverable or bundled from inception - to challenge findings, compare alternatives and align owners, conditions and priorities.

Output
Decision record and agreed action path.

Bespoke Advisory Sprint

A time- and scope-limited workstream answering one defined follow-up question from the existing Zygraen evidence base. It is not an open-ended retainer.

Output
Focused memo, scenario set, negotiation map or implementation path.

Legal Actionables

Client-ready legal-commercial instruments tied to the approved decision, scoped from inception or added later. Zygraen integrates the work; legal judgment and release.

Output
Approved document, issue list, execution checklist and version-locked client delivery.

NEXT STEP

We’ll structure what follows.

Bring the decision, the contemplated exposure and the information already available. Zygraen will determine whether a scoped assessment is appropriate.

START A CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION

START A CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION

NEXT STEP

We’ll structure what follows.

Bring the decision, the contemplated exposure and the information already available. Zygraen will determine whether a scoped assessment is appropriate.

START A CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION

START A CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION

NEXT STEP

We’ll structure what follows.

Bring the decision, the contemplated exposure and the information already available. Zygraen will determine whether a scoped assessment is appropriate.

Start a confidential conversation

Start a confidential conversation