MAKE YOUR BUSINESS HUM
LTA offers a comprehensive selection of business operations and IT services to make your business run smoother, faster and stronger. Whether your’re looking to implement a new solution, build better processes or refine your project or operational strategy, our expert advisors have the right solution for you.
Whether you’re buying or selling, integrating two separate entities or carving one out from an existing organization, LTA can help you determine a strategic course of action. We take an integrated approach to analyzing transactions, providing a perspective on the business as a whole while performing technology due diligence. Our transaction services have reduced CAPEX/OPEX, reduced investment risk and optimized target price, all through detailed analysis and tailored recommendations. Get the best information available, so you can make the best possible decision.
BUY-SIDE TRANSACTIONS
LTA can help you analyze the performance of any potential acquisitions. We’ll analyze operating expenses for operations and IT, as well as overall business expenses, to provide you with a complete portrait of the organization with a focus on technology.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Performing an overall IT organization assessment
- Auditing system integrity, scalability and capacity
- Determining compatibility of systems and operations
- Investigating systems and operations interdependence
- Calculating impact exposure, including need for greater investment, system upgrades, more personnel and other expenditures
SELL-SIDE TRANSACTIONS
Let LTA help prepare your organization for a successful sale. Our IT and operations and transaction expertise allows us to swiftly determine the steps necessary to make the company attractive to buyers, finding areas of risk and recommending complementary action items. You’ll get a selling strategy that reduces buyer doubt—and earns you a higher offer.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Identifying areas of deficiencies and risk for the buyers
- Recommending action items that can address deficiencies and remediate risks
- Minimizing doubt for potential buyers that could impact valuation and thus a lower offer
- Recommending information to be provided to buyers
- Assisting in creating the data room and managing access
- Playing the seller’s advocate on the technology side
CARVE-OUTS
Turning a business unit into an independent entity requires care, patience—and expert analysis. That’s where we come in, helping you determine the best way to take two linked systems and turn them into smooth-running, stand-alone entities. With our experienced evaluation, you’ll be able to preserve what inspired you to buy the business unit in the first place.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Identifying use of technology
- Identifying type of transaction as it pertains to software licensing
- Determining any shared services that need to be replaced
- Understanding service provider contract implications and potential penalties
- Estimating systems, infrastructure and IT staff needed for standalone operation
- Estimating one-time and recurring expenses for standalone operation
- Developing a Transition Services Agreement (TSA) and estimating transition costs
- Developing a Supporting Transition Project Plan
INTEGRATION
Bring your businesses together in a way that boosts performance. LTA manages the entire integration process, drawing from our time in both industry and consulting to help you create the IT organization best positioned for success. We deliver a detailed plan that works with your strengths, builds efficiency and evolves as you continue to grow.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Identifying technology to support synergies between two entities
- Identifying technology needs for the two entities
- Analyzing the skills set of each separate organization
- Recommending the best technology strategy for combined entity
- Recommending IT organization staffing for combined entity
- Estimating one-time and recurring costs for combined entity
- Developing a detailed project plan to manage the integration process