Consulting

Create and Protect Value Before, During and After the Transaction

Transactions create opportunity, but value is often lost when strategy, financial information, contracts, people, systems, suppliers and operating models are assessed separately. BESONG Consulting supports buyers, sellers, investors, shareholders and management teams evaluating acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, divestments and restructurings across African markets.

Create and Protect Value Before, During and After the Transaction
01

Transaction Strategy

  • Acquisition and partnership strategy.
  • Market, sector and target screening.
  • Investment thesis development.
  • Entry-mode and ownership options.
  • Commercial and financial scenario modelling.
  • Joint-venture rationale and partner criteria.
  • Transaction roadmap and governance.
02

Due Diligence Coordination

  • Commercial due diligence.
  • Operational due diligence.
  • Procurement and supply-chain diligence.
  • Technology, data and ERP diligence.
  • Workforce and organisation assessment.
  • Contract and obligation review coordination.
  • Tax, legal and regulatory review coordination.
  • Financial due diligence through authorised accounting professionals.
  • Risk, compliance and ESG assessment.
  • Synergy identification and validation.
03

Joint-Venture Design

A successful joint venture requires more than an ownership split. We help connect governance, reserved matters, funding, procurement, operating authority, people, technology, data, local content, performance, deadlock and exit to the way the venture must operate.

Services include:

  • Joint-venture operating models.
  • Governance and committee structures.
  • Decision-rights design.
  • Service and cost-sharing arrangements.
  • Performance and reporting frameworks.
  • Day-one readiness.
  • JV management office support.
04

Integration, Separation and Restructuring

  • Integration strategy and operating-model design.
  • Day-one and 100-day planning.
  • Post-merger integration offices.
  • Finance, procurement, HR and system integration.
  • Supplier and contract transition.
  • Culture and change management.
  • Synergy tracking.
  • Separation and carve-out planning.
  • Business restructuring.
  • Cost and working-capital recovery.
  • Performance turnaround.
  • Crisis programme management.
05

Professional Boundary

Valuations, statutory opinions, regulated investment advice, securities activities, legal opinions, tax representation and independent financial due-diligence opinions are delivered through appropriately authorised professionals and engagement entities.

06

Outcomes

We help clients make better transaction decisions, prepare the organisation for closing and manage the difficult operational work required to realise value after the deal.

Prepare for a Transaction

Build a 100-Day Integration Plan


CONNECTED CAPABILITY

Continue the transformation journey.

BESONG Consulting coordinates the services, systems and implementation workstreams required by the client objective.

BESONG CONSULTING

Strategy to systems. Systems to results.

We establish the facts, design the operating model, mobilise delivery, implement the change, stabilise performance and transfer capability.