Welcome

Our Uniqueness

Athens helps clients make superior investment decisions and supports them to deliver value from these decisions through timely implementation. We combine insight into commercial and operational issues gained from hands-on sector and functional expertise with deep transaction and investment support experience. Our advanced programme management tools  help companies to achieve challenging objectives, particularly in complex mergers, carve-outs, separations and reorganisations.

As an independent firm we are free from any ‘Big 4' conflicts and can go that extra mile. We don't simply document the vision for the merger, we help make it a reality. We don't simply write operational due diligence reports, we support the organisation to deliver the benefits. We don't simply log operational issues in the risk register, we help to resolve them.

Our Focus

We focus on helping to make transactions and investments successful for our clients. We concentrate on the key issues in specific sectors to provide support to those making investment decisions. We do not seek to be all things to all people, rather experts in our chosen fields. We deploy functional, transactional and operational experts to deliver successful acquisitions and disposals.

How We Work With Clients

We work with clients to help them to acquire a business, to carve-out non-core operations, to launch new products, or to reorganize management structures and operations. We also support clients to ensure changes in operations and commercial  strategy result in superior financial performance. We build the bridge between global strategy and the operational actions required to implement it, through a structured and proven programme management approach.

Our People

Our teams consist of people with a strong track record in strategy and transactions complemented by deep expertise in transaction support, programme management, reorganisation and finance.

How clients describe Athens team members

Questions we help answer

• What types of acquisitions should we consider?
  
  
• What are the synergies from the deal?
  
  
• Does the target business have the production capacity to meet the financial plan?
  
  
• How should we plan and manage our re-organisation?
  
  
• How should the integration be structured and managed?
  
  
• How can this business achieve its ambitions of increasing average client spend?
  
  
• Will this new product launch work? What do we have to do to make it work?
  
  
• This potential acquisition forecasts a big improvement in its future performance - will it happen?
  
  
• Does the investment have a strategic fit/overlap with your current portfolio of investments? Are there any synergies?
  
  
• How can we make a lot more profit from the existing operations?
  
  
• How can I best prepare an investment for sale?
  
  
• What are the risks of investing in this business?
  
  
• Can we expand into this market – what will we make out of it?