Strategic and commercial preparation before transaction execution.
PROLOGUE focuses on the strategic and commercial work that precedes and informs a transaction: investment thesis, opportunity assessment, commercial analysis and business-model evaluation.
PROLOGUE supports corporates, promoters, investors and family businesses through the strategic and analytical stages of acquisitions, divestments, partnerships and growth transactions, focusing on whether the business fits the client's long-term objectives, competitive position and value-creation agenda.
From thesis to transaction readiness.
Seven stages of transaction preparation and assessment, available individually or as an integrated engagement.
Investment thesis
Target origination
Strategic screening
Commercial evaluation
Due diligence
Investment decision
Transaction readiness
Strategic and commercial assessment, complementing specialist financial and legal advice.
- Opportunity, sector and target screening
- Market, commercial and competitive assessment
- Commercial and operational due diligence
- Business-model, value-chain and platform evaluation
- Investment thesis, business case and value-creation planning
- Investment committee and board decision support
- Transaction readiness, buyer intelligence and corporate development support
- Strategic partnerships, joint ventures and post-transaction growth
Assessing strategic fit and value creation.
Evaluation considers industry attractiveness, competitive position, customer quality, operational resilience, management capability and long-term growth potential alongside financial metrics.
Sector assessments, competitive intelligence and the Prologue Industry Indices place each opportunity in the context of its market, competitors and cost environment.
Transaction advisory clients.
Promoters and family businesses
Preparing for a sale, a partner or growth capital, and wanting a credible commercial story.
Strategic acquirers
Screening targets in Indian industrial sub-sectors and testing fit before engaging.
Private equity and family offices
Sector theses, platform identification and commercial due diligence.
Banks and intermediaries
Sector and commercial work that complements the financial and regulated advice they provide.
PROLOGUE acts as a strategic adviser to principals. Where regulated intermediary, valuation, financing or securities-related services are required, the firm works alongside appropriately licensed professionals.
Discuss the thesis, target or transaction.
Mandates may begin with an investment thesis, a target, a sale process or a partnership, with scope defined around the commercial work required.