Airlines were grounded, and defense budgets are threatened. Prospects for recovery are emerging but will be measured in years. Complacency is a killer. Digital transformation is more critical than ever. Leaner, more agile models are essential. One aircraft OEM unlocked $10 billion in cash in three years. A satellite company uncovered more than $200 million in hidden savings within 12 months and won back disgruntled customers. How did they do it? By working with us.

We coined the acronym C.A.S.E. to describe the auto of the future: connected, autonomous, shared, and electrified. It is now a widely used term in the industry. Connectivity is extending consumers’ digital lives into their cars. Traditional OEMs and new entrants are investing billions in the race toward autonomous driving vehicles. The rise of shared mobility is changing the entire concept of car ownership and creating new business models. Meanwhile, emission regulations mean electric and hybrid vehicles could reach 25% of the market by 2025. 

Our global automotive and industrial team works hand-in-hand with management of OEMs, tier-one suppliers, and industrial products companies to compete in this environment. We help companies make the right consolidation moves, improve productivity and costs, optimize revenues and pricing, place the right bets on innovation, and implement changes that last. 

These are challenging times for consumer products companies. Rapidly changing consumer priorities accelerated by the pandemic, increasing complexity in global supply chains, and intensifying competition is creating a perfect storm of disruption. It has become more difficult to drive higher levels of growth and productivity. Companies must evolve their business models to deliver on shareholder expectations as well as the demands of the self-centric consumer.  

We bring an unbiased and assertive point of view as well as our experienced and tactical skillset to help companies navigate everything from mergers and acquisitions to shifts in underlying consumer demand trends.

Our revenue growth-oriented work is based on research and data insights, is highly quantifiable, and delivered within the timeframe of an accelerated transformation. A food and beverage company increased gross margin by 500 bps through a companywide operational improvement program and targeted M&A activity. A household products company doubled operating profit by optimizing its pricing and promotion, product portfolio, and end-to-end supply chain. Our experienced teams help consumer products companies implement powerful solutions and achieve sustainable changes in performance and value. 

Complex regulatory rules, expensive legacy assets, looming cybersecurity threats, and digital innovation—including the rise of fintech—are pressuring many banks and other financial institutions to rethink their operating models. Many financial services firms—including retail and investment banks, asset managers, and insurance companies—are staying relevant by harnessing these disruptive forces rather than competing against them.

We work with incumbents to navigate through the complexity and scope of this enormous challenge, select the opportunities with the best risk-adjusted return on investment, and drive the digital transformation they need to protect and enhance profitability. And we help newcomers reach rapid and sustainable growth.

The global healthcare system is in flux. Complex regulatory environments, growing competition and pricing pressures, and aging business models all pose significant challenges. Litigation remains a threat.

Outsourcing and strategic partnerships make relationship management a competence to be mastered. The healthcare and life sciences companies succeeding in this environment are using practical strategies to harness disruptive technology, comply with regulatory demands, and compete efficiently. One medical device company identified and captured more than $100 million in incremental EBITDA improvements over an 18-month period, dramatically changing its overall profitability and valuations.

A struggling infusion pharmacy chain reduced OPEX by 14% and achieved breakeven EBITA within a year. Working together with medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies, as well as healthcare providers, we help companies protect and create value—quickly.

With almost 4,000 PE firms worldwide and nearly a trillion dollars of dry powder on the sidelines, competition for targets is fierce and deals are more complex than ever. Smart decision-making is critical at every stage of the investment life cycle. From performing due diligence to improving portfolio-company performance to maximizing exit value, we collaborate with and enhance management teams.

Our financially and operationally savvy professionals are known for their pragmatic and hands-on approach to challenging existing plans, identifying and unlocking sources of value, and evaluating and coaching talent.

In the global real estate market, the wrong decisions – even on a single project – can cost a company dearly. External and local conditions (such as macroeconomic trends, geopolitical factors, and regulation) and fierce competition make navigating this market increasingly difficult. To survive, many large global players are consolidating, with an eye toward slashing costs, boosting profitability, and balancing risks. But consolidation comes with its own challenges.

Instability and disruption have been the dominant themes for the restaurant, hospitality, and leisure industries. Consumers continue to be more demanding. Safety has become a top priority, but quality, value, and personalization are still high on the menu.

Restaurants are having to incorporate home delivery options and touchless payment and pickup into main operations as they also revamp menus and balance overhead costs. Many are rethinking locations and whether to prioritize suburban areas over city centers.

Hotels, sports venues, resorts, and casinos are juggling consumer priorities and preferences with rising labor costs, rising technology expectations, and supply chain disruptions. We help companies in the restaurant, hospitality, and leisure space transform their operations so that they can respond to upcoming disruptions and changing consumer behavior quickly to stay competitive and deliver value to shareholders.  

The forces of change pummeling retail have never been stronger. Rapidly shifting consumer behavior is accelerating trends that had been gradually underway over the last few years. Online sales have experienced growth that usually takes four or five years in just a few months. And retailers are having to pay much more attention to how, and how quickly, product gets into the hands of consumers. The entire ecosystem has been impacted -- from manufacturers to retailers to landlords, luxury to mass, and every touchpoint in between.  

While retail has learned to live with disruptions over the last few years, the next step is to start anticipating them and preparing accordingly. Retailers need to embrace agility across their entire organization to better sense and respond to changing consumer priorities and industry trends. This will mean fixing operational issues that have marred performance and profitability for years. Our deeply experienced and hands-on retail team will work alongside you to guide and support your transformation as you reinvent the very meaning of the word retail. 

Shippers have become experts in squeezing costs out of their supply chains, putting significant pressure on their logistics and transportation partners in the process. We work across the supply chain to help shippers achieve sustainable savings, service providers improve scalable profitability, and investors reduce risk. One intermodal transportation company developed a sustainable $35 million EBITDA improvement program.

A failing 3PL restructured as an asset-lite business creating a 15% EBITDA improvement. An international ports operator identified and initiated deployment of more than 300 initiatives to generate annual EBITDA improvements of more than $100 million. We help businesses like these across the supply chain deliver results – from the first mile to the last.

Convergence and personalization. SaaS transition and cloud migration. Disrupting upstarts, de-mergers and activism. Exponential growth and overnight irrelevance. These are but a subset of the forces impacting the Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) industries.

Winners in these hypercompetitive fields are aggressively reshaping their business models, competencies, revenue models, and cost structures. Our global team combines deep expertise and a set of proprietary tools tailored to these industries with a proven track record of dramatically increasing enterprise value through a focus on cost, revenue, cash, or a combination of all three.

One leading software player reduced operating costs by 19% in 24 months by rethinking every aspect of its operating footprint, go-to-market approach, R&D pipeline and overhead structures. A media company fundamentally changed the way it captures value from customers through time-phased value pricing algorithms. A major telco operator reversed declining performance at on operating company by executing a clear turnaround plan. How did they do it? They worked with us.

Capitalizing on this moment means starting yesterday. It requires a calculated overhaul of "business as usual." 

The constant creation, movement, and transformation of data poses challenges for firms who must secure stakeholders’ privacy, manage and mitigate risk, comply with stringent regulations and, ultimately, capitalize on the opportunities available to them.

Value creation, transformation, and growth through M&A.At every stage of a deal, companies and investors face critical opportunities to accelerate, enhance, and protect value.

Liquidity, market uncertainty, and fluctuations in valuations raise the stakes for all players. Speed to results has never been more critical. You need a partner who is biased toward action and can deliver value now.

Our global team of M&A experts have walked in your shoes. They have deep experience at each stage of the deal lifecycle, from strategy and diligence to acquisition, value capture, and divestiture. We partner closely with executives and investors across industries and geographies to maximize value. We support you at every step of your transaction journey, creating value through operating improvements and synergies, rationalizing business interests, and enacting digital (r)evolutions.

How we can help

Outside-In Due Diligence

Rapid insights, thoughtful decisions.
AI-enabled outside-in assessments of potential targets.

Commercial & Operations Due Diligence

Underwritable deal theses powered by AlixPartners.
In-depth, credible, and fact-based approach to providing buyers with clarity on optimization opportunities, growth potential, and value creation.

Technology Due Diligence

Navigating digital maturity to enable growth.
Assessing if target is ready to change, nimble on execution, and see any technology and digital pitfalls ahead.

Carve-Outs & Divestitures

Deriving optimal value from assets.
We guide clients through the complexities of carving-out or selling assets. Likewise, we help discerning buyers create value from bringing on carved-out assets.

Integration

Realizing synergies and ensuring continuity.
From signing, to day 1, to day 100 and beyond, we navigate complex antitrust and merger controls processes, safeguard business continuity, and integrate and realize synergies. Our integration offerings focus on how to transform the business into a top performing organization by  seamlessly uniting structures, technology and culture.

Corporate Finance

Exploring and delivering on options for capital.
Our team of specialist Corporate Finance professionals help clients understand the M&A and capital options available to deliver strategic goals, preserving, enhancing, or realizing value. We have an established track record of providing time-critical advice to clients on acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt raising, refinancing, debt restructuring, and accelerated M&A. 

We help management develop the strategies and organizational capabilities to achieve and sustain superior shareholder returns over time

A mission statement and string of best practices aren’t enough if you want to outperform competitors. 

CEOs need to capitalize on the areas within their organization that drive value creation, track their growth, and build out internal capabilities to sustain superior shareholder returns.

Minimize financial and operational risk with advanced technology and expert advisory services
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The pace of technological change is altering the way businesses operate.

Increased regulatory and reporting requirements, the exponential growth of data and the complexity of litigation requires a comprehensive approach to investigations, disputes and other advisory challenges with a front-footed strategy, cutting-edge technological tools and vetted expertise.

AlixPartners works with companies and their legal counsel to bring transparency to every stage of the legal and regulatory process. Our team of accountants, economists, financial analysts, former regulators, certified fraud examiners, industry experts, and forensic technology specialists are industry veterans and experts frequently called on to testify in critical cases. We provide clients with clear, actionable and defensible insights to some of their most challenging situations. 

Our services are designed to work together to support businesses at any point in their lifecycle, from adjusting to macroeconomic headwinds, preparing for a robust valuation defense and minimizing risk using our technological toolkits and advisory frameworks.

How we can help

• Compliance
• Disputes & Expert Services
• Economics Consulting
• Investigations
• Valuation

Across our engagements, we help clients assess and improve their environmental impact, and comply with emerging regulatory frameworks, such as the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

As a firm known for deep expertise, we have prioritized the development of specialized teams to address carbon reduction, environmental resource management, energy transition, and other pressing climate challenges.
Our growing list of ESG offerings

• Should-Carbon™
• Sustainable Supplier Program & Scope 3 Carbon Reduction Model
• Carbon Cost Rationalization
• ESG Due Diligence
• ESG QuickStrike®
• Diversity Spend X-Ray

Having a vision isn't enough if you don't link actions to outcomes.

We focus on changes that will drive the company valuation higher, improve the operating model, and be actioned by an ownership team that has full buy-in to the strategy.

We work with growth-minded companies to capture the full value from their existing offerings and help design new and effective ways to go to market to bend the revenue curve. We build infrastructure to succeed and sustain long-term growth for our partners.

From the moment you engage our people, we dive into a deep assessment of capabilities your company needs to succeed.  We create detailed, prioritized plans for the initiatives that will get you there, and crucially, we operate by earning approval from the board and standing up growth transformation offices to see the vision through. 

We use comprehensive frameworks to assess drivers of commercial performance and action those insights, unleashing 10 to 25% revenue growth on average, and an EBIDTA margin expansion of 5 to 9 or more percentage points. Sound like something you could work with? Speak to one of our team.

How we can help

• Underwriteable Growth Strategy
• Pricing Effectiveness
• Marketing Effectiveness
• Sales & Channel Effectiveness
• Commercial Operating Model & Capabilities
• Commercial Diligence