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Ben Martin

Palladium’s approach to transaction advisory is value add focussed. Identifying digital and commercial opportunities for your investments to excel and providing guidance on how to achieve them via a transformation roadmap.
Palladium’s due diligence assessments provide investors with the insight to fully understand a business’s digital, commercial and technology competencies prior to investment.
Our due diligence team combine expertise from in-house and agency digital marketing roles, commercial due diligence, technology and data implementation and strategy roles. This unique combination gives us the ability to assess all elements of a target’s digital and commercial operating model.

Snapshot report | Low-latency, low-cost assessment of a sector and competitive landscape, or rapid benchmarking of a target or owned asset versus its competitors and market.
Prism | Our SaaS product which uses proprietary algorithms to analyse public data about a target business, its competitors and the wider market to help private equity firms make rapid decisions about potential investment opportunities.

Snapshot Report

Market Study | Broad and deep assessment of a product category or sector, providing a granular analysis of products, pricing, customer sets and competitors to reveal insights into market viability and potential opportunity for expansion and growth.
Origination | Provides a rapid-turnaround prioritised list of potential investment candidates based on client-provided parameters, utilising a proprietary, data-driven methodology.

Market Review

Early-Stage DD | Outside-in assessment of commercial capability, digital performance and brand strength vs the market and direct competitors to provide an early, qualified view on a target company’s ‘right to win’

Early Stage Diligence (outside in)

Digital DD | Defining the digital health and maturity of investment targets, assessing the sustainability of business performance, identifying disruptive threats from new technologies, legislation and consumer trends and opportunities for change through digital
Commercial DD | Full due diligence of an investment target’s historical performance and future commercial growth potential within its market and against its competitor set, utilizing a combination of digital data sets, data room analysis, targeted surveys / expert interviews and the expertise of our in-house analysts.
Technology DD | A detailed assessment of the strength of the technical foundations of a business, indicating areas requiring further investment and the suitability of platforms to meet business plan requirements. It also identifies strategic opportunities for the introduction of technology to drive commercial value.

Digital, Commercial and Technology Due Diligence

Internal digital review | Internally-facing comprehensive ‘current state’ assessment of commercial, digital, technology maturity, including a prioritised roadmap of actionable opportunities to prepare for a sale process.
Vendor DD | Investor-facing assessment of the commercial, digital and technology capabilities of a business, validating the progress made and the achievability and commercial impact of future opportunities, creating an engaging narrative around the topics that are most important to potential investors.

Exit Preparation

Palladium is radically different from traditional consultancies. We base our recommendations on a strategy we believe we can and will implement together with your investments. We build capability to design and develop the products and services which will enable organisations to scale quickly. Collaborating with your investment’s team to implement agile working practices and developing solutions that add value.
Adopting agile working practices, we make sure our time is focused on developing solutions that add value. We build and test working prototypes to assess their viability so we can make decisions around whether and how to scale effectively.

Product & tech implementation

BRAND AND REPUTATION

Assessing a business’s ability to build a digital brand presence, through offline and digital tools, and track the impact of spending on performance.

DIGITAL MARKETING

Defining the digital health of a business’s customer acquisition and retention engine, assessing the effectiveness and sustainability of marketing performance, identifying threats from competitor strategies as well as opportunities for improvements to unit economics.

DATA

Evaluating the maturity of the business’s data, related processes and capacity, review if decision-making is truly data-driven, through an assessment of strategy, infrastructure, people and analytics.

DIGITAL PRODUCT

Conducting a comprehensive evaluation of a business’s digital product capability, analysing the maturity level of the product strategy, product development, and product performance to gauge the business&#8217;s potential to scale, and identifying any necessary investments required to expedite growth.

TECHNOLOGY

Defining the technology health of a business, assessing the sustainability and scalability of systems, identifying potential threats and opportunities for competitive advantage through technology development.

COMMERCIAL

Analysing the commercial dynamics for a business including market size and trends, competitor strategies, and customer referencing.

Transaction Advisory

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Ben Martin