Redefining business and growth strategy - Ernst & Young - Switzerland

The current economic climate gives you the opportunity to reconsider your business strategy and the way you deploy resources while carefully managing your portfolio.

Ernst & Young’s transaction professionals help you evaluate and confirm your business and growth strategies.

We can work with you to:

• Understand the specific value proposition for complex business holdings and investments
• Evaluate your business portfolio and investment priorities in light of current market conditions
• Identify non-core assets for divesting
• Develop a short- and long-term program for protecting and growing value and managing investor interests
• Understand and address concerns with capital markets valuations

Our services include:

Strategic finance: our professionals can help you develop plans to grow and create shareholder value. Our fact- and value-based analysis provides a perspective for deploying resources to optimize shareholder value and manage risk. Financial modelling supports your business case for proposed investments, enhancing your credibility with banks, creditors and equity markets while giving you insights on key cash-flow generation, risk and value drivers.

Valuation: we can support your senior management in making decisions through our independent and objective advice on M&A, divestitures, restructuring, strategy design and implementation, financial reporting, litigation and risk management.

We can also help you with tax planning and regulatory issues, identifying critical value and risk drivers and determining linkages that affect performance. In addition, valuation can help you better align your decision-making, resource allocation, executive compensation and enterprise performance.

Financial and business modeling: we provide an objective view of critical assumptions and uncertainties so you and your investors understand the deal better — from revenue and tax structure strategies, to investment drivers that create value.

Sell-side services: we provide a set of solutions that can help you maximize value and efficiency, maintain control and minimize disruption in any disposal process. Ernst & Young can work with you from portfolio review to exit readiness and separation to make a difference in your divestitures. Our services include:

• Valuation and financial modeling
• Due diligence and financial statement preparation
• Tax planning and structuring
• Cost and synergy analysis
• Operational separation