Our Story
We founded MergeCo in 2005 to help our clients preserve and extract value when undertaking mergers, acquisitions (M&A) and strategic exits. With a background in large scale, cross-border corporate M&A, much of our early activity was with transactions in the $100-$500 million range.
In 2008, we combined practitioner experience with an exhaustive examination of 30 years of M&A research to identify the key drivers of value in each phase of M&A activity. Value drivers were tagged and we invited prominent Australian and US corporate acquirers to assist us in validating each of these. This process gave rise to our proprietary SETUP4Success ® benchmarking and best practice framework.
Since 2008, we have discovered that an understanding of corporate M&A and private equity can be employed very effectively for the benefit of private clients seeking a strategic exit. Knowing what a corporate acquirer or private equity group wants from an acquisition means we are able to build a strategic value proposition that benefits both parties.
In 2011 we opened our office in New York and launched our sell-side practice. Our presence in New York extends our access to capital and opportunities in the regions (and time zones) that were previously harder to cover from Asia. We have experience with transactions right across the M&A mid-market continuum ($5-$500 million) in a host of industries and markets.