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Customer & Market Due Diligence

We establish a clear picture of the target company’s market positioning and growth potential in even the most complex and data-poor niche markets. Our analytical rigor and broad industry expertise enable us to perform a quick but robust assessment of key market drivers and trends, and build a bottom-up market model to establish reliable market size/growth projections. Through our exhaustive research, including customer, supplier, competitor, and expert interviews, we establish competitive dynamics, technology/service advantages, customer buying criteria, and customers’ perception of the target. We then develop a top-level strategic plan – in essence a post-acquisition growth roadmap (add-ons and organic) for our clients.

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CTV AdTech Platform
Deciphering CTV And Programmatic Advertising Ecosystems And Growth Outlook

Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence to establish the growth outlook of CTV and programmatic display advertising and the target’s competitive positioning in the CTV advertising ecosystem. To this end, Gotham:  conducted 35 interviews with and 280+ online surveys of publishers, advertisers, advertising agencies, and AdTech platforms; established CTV and programmatic display market dynamics and digital ad spend trends; and built a comprehensive database of AdTech platforms. Gotham provided our client a clear view on the inner workings of the CTV and programmatic display ad ecosystems and the target’s positioning within the CTV ecosystem. This clarity along with a fact-based outlook for digital marketing spend allowed our client to gain confidence in the target’s potential and move forward to close the deal.

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Managed Waste Solutions Provider
Understanding Risk Posed By National Haulers

Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence of a managed waste solutions provider to establish the target's positioning/risk vs. national waste haulers; its competitive differentiation; its margin stability and recession risk; and the overall managed waste solutions market size and growth expectations. To this end, Gotham:  conducted 33 interviews with and 73 online surveys of customers; built a detailed end-market level sizing model; determined the managed waste solutions competitive landscape; analyzed distances between landfills and the target’s customers; built a recession impact model; and established customer and hauler pricing mechanisms. Gotham provided a detailed view on the competitive dynamics and risks posed by the national waste haulers and the advantages of managed waste solutions providers, helping build client confidence in pursuing the target aggressively. 

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Behavioral Health Treatment Services Provider
Establishing Supply/Demand Imbalance And Growth Outlook

Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence to:  (1) establish the adolescent/young adult mental health treatment addressable market size; and (2) validate the target’s outpatient and short-term residential program growth opportunities. To this end, Gotham:  conducted interviews with and surveys of psychiatrists, educational consultants, residential programs, payors, and insurance advocates; built a supply/demand model to quantify the gap between current and unconstrained demand for these services; established insurance dynamics pertaining to behavioral health coverage; and built a database of residential treatment programs. Armed with the clarity on supply/demand imbalances in outpatient and short-term residential care treatment provided by Gotham, our client gained confidence in the target’s aggressive growth plan and moved forward to successfully close the deal. 

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Security Services Provider
Establishing Market, Technology, And Competitive Dynamics In Niche End-markets

Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence to establish the security services market’s dynamics, growth outlook, and competitive landscape. To this end, Gotham:  conducted interviews with and online surveys of security service buyers; determined demand drivers, the labor and technology landscape, and the recession risk in this market; built an employment-based market sizing model; and profiled competitive segments. Gotham provided our client with a clear and fact-based view of the market’s current size and growth outlook, impact of technology, and the target’s competitive positioning, allowing our client to gain confidence in the target’s potential and successfully close the deal.  

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Cleaning Services Provider
Establishing Niche Market And Competitive Dynamics

Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence to establish the market and competitive dynamics in the target’s 4 niche end-markets. To this end, Gotham:  conducted interviews with and online surveys of service buyers; established market dynamics and growth drivers for each end-market; built market sizing models for each end-market; and profiled end-market competitive landscape. Gotham provided our client with a clear and fact-based view on the target’s reputation and competitive positioning in multiple niche end-markets, along with its market size and growth outlook. This allowed our client to gain confidence in the target’s potential and move forward to close the deal.  

 

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Hospitality Services Provider
Establishing Post-covid Market Outlook And Outsourcing Dynamics

Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence of a hospitality services provider offering valet parking services to establish the target's competitive positioning and differentiation; the addressable hospitality services market size, key trends, and growth; the target’s revenue stability and recession risk; and its growth opportunities. To this end, Gotham:  conducted anonymous interviews with and online surveys of customers, non-customers, competitors, and parking consultants; built bottom-up hospitality and healthcare hospitality services market models; built a detailed database of parking services players and created a market-by-market view of the competitive landscape for 33 major geographic markets; conducted a profitability analysis examining revenue and margin profiles; and built a recession impact model. Gotham’s fact-based approach provided our client the customer and competitive insights needed to gain comfort with the target’s future outlook and clarified its margin and recession risk, allowing our client to successfully close the deal. 

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Related Capabilities

 

Operational Due Diligence

 

Post-Merger Integration/ Carve-Out Planning

 

Pragmatic Growth Strategy

 

Sales & Marketing Effectiveness

 

Rapid Operations Improvements

Industry Expertise

 
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Consumer
 
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Food & Beverage
 
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Healthcare
 
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Industrials
 
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Infrastructure
 
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Services

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