Because of our exclusive focus on companies delivering IT services many strategic and financial buyers make their corporate development needs known to Strategic Ventures. The following is a brief summary of the growing list of
merger opportunities from our enterprise
application consulting clients looking to drive
exponential growth.
Seeking $50-$175M SAP-centric Consulting & IT Services Businesses
IT services/consulting companies and consulting practices (within larger companies) that have capabilities consistent with our client’s SAP Services growth strategy. Operations of interest are those with SAP value proposition with vertical strength in Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare, Public Sector. Global 2000 client based is preferred.
Seeking $30-200M East & Midwest US IT Consultancies
Prospective target companies will have clients and IT services offerings that would be significantly more valuable, scalable, and profitable if they were outsourced, offshore. Qualified target companies (or divisions of large companies) are those aligned with the following profile:
--Business model: At least 2 of the following four lines of business: 1) applications development and maintenance (including testing); 2) remote IT infrastructure management; and 3) ERP and BI systems implementation and support.4) business process outsourcing (F&A and core business).
--Focus: Larger and multi-year contracts with major off-shore component.
--Verticals: Virtually all with the exception of government (key sectors: Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Energy & Chemicals, Manufacturing, Pharma)
--Geography: Eastern and Central time zones in US & Canada
--Financials: $30-200M revenue, profitable and cash flow positive.
--Clients: >$350M in annual IT budgets
--Services: IT services that are technical in nature that require strong process and program management and are SLA based.
--Application Development and Management
--Remote IT infrastructure Management
--Systems Integration including implementation and support of ERP and BI market leaders
--Business Process Outsourcing including Finance & Administration and core business process (e.g. mortgage processing, claims processing, imaging)
--Personnel: Proven business development talent in the development of long term relationships with companies that spend $350m or more in IT Services internally or with vendors.
Seeking to acquire $10-35M Enterprise- and SOA-Oriented IT Services
A privately-held IT services company that just received an infusion of growth capital is looking to discuss acquisition possibilities with IT services companies that have capabilities consistent with their enterprise and service-oriented transformation strategy. Our client is interested in discussions with companies that are aligned with the following profile:
Privately-held IT services companies with technical or business process consulting skills that support Global 2000 company transitions to service-oriented architecture, including, but not limited to the following services areas:
SOA
Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse
Portals
Application Infrastructure
Project or managed services business models
Annual revenues between $10-35M
Global 2000-oriented client base
Vertical industry domain expertise
Multi-million dollar accounts
Executives with the commitment, desire, experience, influence and skills to be a part of the “going-forward” combinded team
Organizational entrepreneurial culture and consulting philosophy that is consistent with a collaborative work environment
Seeking to acquire a 20-300 employee U.S. companies that deliver SAP or Oracle services to Global 2000-sized clients
Our client, a large business and consulting firm, has a strategic initiative to substantially increase its SAP and Oracle enterprise software resources to meet existing client demand. Efficient and company-specific ERP software utilization plays an extensive role in their engagements. Therefore, our client is looking for acquisitions that will greatly enhance and extend its business transformation services capabilities. The following represents our client''''s strategic acquisition profile: * Privately-held IT consultancies with at least 70% of revenue derived from SAP- and/or Oracle oriented consulting /implementation/ project management * Major metro (U.S.) focus (staff''''s presence) * Executives with the desire, experience, influence and skills to help realize high growth * Organizational culture consulting philosophy that is collaborative and client-centric * Global 2000-oriented client base * 20-300 employees * Vertical industry domain expertise.
