Pre-Deal Evaluation (non-financial due diligence)

Our objective goes beyond merely assessing whether the deal can be made.  We want to determine if, and by what means, the acquisition will succeed.

Detailed investigation, assessment and recommendations are provided in:

• human capital, leadership and team working assessment
• strategic positioning, operational performance and management capabilities
• marketing analysis of brand equity including current awareness, strengths, weaknesses and future potential
• analysis of sales, distribution and supply chain management capabilities
• competitive environment analysis
• customer satisfaction analysis
• identification of value generators, such as synergies and under-utilized assets

Our strength is not only to provide accurate assessments of the upside and downside potential of pending transactions, but to also help realize and maximize the value of the acquisitions, if and when the deals are made.

Post-Deal Management

Obviously the insight into the strengths, weaknesses and potential of the target acquisition gained during the pre-deal evaluation stage is extensive and invaluable.  

The Partners are then uniquely able to step in and leverage that insight to provide the bridge between strategy and implementation; between plans and action.

These comprehensives services include:

Providing Interim Management to set new investments on the right track towards increased profitability.

Executing Turnarounds by steadying the course for investments which have gone awry or are not performing as expected.

Providing Non-Executive Directors with experience and expertise in a wide range of sectors.

Where we can help

The group has particularly extensive expertise in Asia's Consumer Goods and Services sectors including:

Who We Are

The Gravitas Partnership is a group of highly experienced professionals with long and successful track records as CEOs and Regional Directors with major international product and service companies operating in Asia.

This is not a small handful of people.   Rather, it is a formidable group of blue-chip professionals who have excelled across a broad range of disciplines.

Each has lived and operated in Asia for over 20 years and the group as a whole has extensive expertise in the strategies, practices and operations required for financial growth in the region.

Food for Thought

Nowhere in Asia is there a single organization with a comparable array of disciplines, skills and on-the-ground regional experience.  Compared to the mega-consultancies, the cost of the service is extremely competitive.  Compared to the piecemeal alternatives, the Group is extremely convenient.

The Partnership is on the ground in Asia, and available on relatively short notice.

The Partners have a vast array of regional knowledge and connections within the Asian corporate and commercial arena.   While based in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore, the partners are in constant movement within the region.   Thus, our field of vision is formidably wide and able to identify potential investment and divestment opportunities.

Gravitas Private Equity Advisory Services are an unique array of skills that can successfully address a number of the core issues and very real challenges encountered by Private Equity and Venture Capitalist managers in vesting in the Asia Pacific Region.