Pre-LOI

Empowering Your Pre-LOI Strategy: Our Comprehensive Approach

Navigating the intricate landscape of mergers and acquisitions requires a strategic approach, starting even before the Letter of Intent (LOI) is signed. At Ducker Carlisle, we offer a suite of Pre-LOI services designed to equip businesses with the critical insights and analysis needed to make well-informed decisions at this pivotal stage of the M&A process.

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Leveraging Insights for Pre-LOI Success in Mergers and Acquisitions

Strategic Market Analysis

Gain a clear understanding of a target’s industry position, competitive landscape, growth opportunities, and market trends to make informed Pre-LOI decisions for sustained growth.

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Operational Insight

Evaluate a target’s internal processes, supply chain effectiveness, and scalability to ensure alignment with your growth strategy and post-merger success.

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Technological Assessment

Analyze a target’s digital infrastructure to identify strengths, gaps, and compatibility, ensuring alignment with your strategy for seamless integration and value creation.

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Synergy Identification

Uncover and quantify cost savings, revenue opportunities, and strategic alignment to maximize integration value and drive long-term growth.

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Cultural and Brand Evaluation

Assess compatibility of organizational culture and brand reputation to ensure smooth integration, employee engagement, and alignment with your long-term vision.

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Customized Advisory Services

Tailored insights to address your unique M\&A challenges, guiding strategic decisions and ensuring a smooth, goal-aligned transaction process.

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Pre-LOI

Capitalizing on Pre-LOI Intelligence to Achieve M&A Triumph

Market Assessment & Target Identification

Market Perspective and Actionable Insights

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Market Assessment & Target Identification
Target Scan

Maximize Deal Value and Minimize Risk with Data-Driven Insights

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Target Scan
Our Benchmarks

Revealing Strategic Insights: Ducker Carlisle's Thorough Benchmarking Approach

Ducker Carlisle hosts benchmarking studies dedicated to OEM parts and service spanning multiple global regions. View our benchmarks below.

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Packaging Market Opportunity Assessment

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Aftermarket Filtration Supplier

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Unbiased, Independent Due Diligence for a Global OEM Supplier

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Inorganic Market Entry

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“Ducker Carlisle are the only true experts in this sector. They understood our needs better than we did and have been instrumental in getting our project across the line.”

Christine Baker
Head of Global Ops
Audi

“Ducker Carlisle are the only true experts in this sector. They understood our needs better than we did and have been instrumental in getting our project across the line.”

Christine Baker
Head of Global Ops
Audi

“Ducker Carlisle are the only true experts in this sector. They understood our needs better than we did and have been instrumental in getting our project across the line.”

Christine Baker
Head of Global Ops
Audi
Meet our Team

With worldwide coverage and unrivaled experience, we stand ready to support our clients wherever they are.

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Jim Devlin

Managing Principal
Troy, Michigan, USA
Jim Devlin is a Managing Principal at Ducker Carlisle where he co-leads the M&A Transaction Support practice and specializes in buy and sell-side market studies, as well as portfolio growth support, across all of Ducker Carlisle’s industry verticals.
Jim holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Indiana University. He has over 20 years of transaction and consulting experience and has participated in over 500 engagements at Ducker Carlisle. Clients value his team’s speed, efficiency, and attention to detail in support of critical market elements utilized by private equity, lenders, and investment banks in their decision-making processes. Jim is an active member of ACG and several industry associations.
M&A Transaction Support

Meredith Gray

Managing Director
Troy, Michigan, USA
Meredith is a Managing Director at Ducker Carlisle where she specializes in Private Equity and M&A Transaction Support engagements.
Meredith holds BA degrees in leadership studies and history from the University of Richmond and a MPA with specialization in finance from the University of Pennsylvania. She has more than a decade of experience leading hundreds of commercial due diligence and growth strategy engagements for Private Equity and Investment Banking clients. Clients value Meredith’s ability to understand their investment hypotheses and design research engagements to address their key questions. Meredith is an active member of ACG.
M&A Transaction Support

Jared Tate

Managing Director
Troy, Michigan, USA
Jared Tate is a Managing Director at Ducker Carlisle where he specializes in Private Equity and M&A Advisory engagements.
Jared holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Brigham Young University. He has nearly a decade of experience leading commercial due diligence and growth strategy engagements across industries and client types. Clients value Jared’s ability to ramp up quickly on niche topics, identify critical investment themes, and drive immediate results.
M&A Transaction Support

Conor Boyle

Managing Director
Troy, Michigan, USA
Conor Boyle is a Managing Director at Ducker Carlisle where he supports project execution within the advisory practice, and specializes in the automotive aftermarket, building and construction applications, and a variety of other industrial markets.
Conor holds a bachelor’s degree from Lake Forest College. He has over 10 years of industry expertise and supported on over 100+ various engagements at Ducker Carlisle in the past five years. Conor is an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and Society of Automotive Analysts (SAA).
M&A Transaction Support
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