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Divestment strategy: sell and separate
Reimagine your portfolio and reshape your future through strategic sales and spins. Navigating risk and operating at speed, EY teams help you create long-term value through better divestments – from design to delivery.
Our divestiture consulting services operate across the entire divestiture life cycle, from strategy to separation to stabilization upon deal closing. Our strategic portfolio management advice helps you decide what and when to monetize.
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What EY can do for you in divestitures and carve-outs
Our diverse divestiture teams can help you capture full value from a divestiture, whether you are a corporate or a private equity fund. We can help you limit disruption, manage remaining tax cost structures and allow you to focus on creating long-term value for stakeholders.
We help enable strategic portfolio management through divestitures, including development of the value story and deal model, marketing the business to buyers, optimizing tax attributes to buyer and seller, preparing carve-out financials and developing operational separation plans.
We offer deep insight into portfolio management to help you get answers to key questions:
- What should I sell to reposition my business in the market?
- How can I sell assets at optimal prices?
- How can I reshape my portfolio to help meet sustainability/ESG targets?
- How can I optimize my portfolio to raise capital for future investments?
- How can I sell non-core assets to preserve capital and help digitally transform my business?
- How can I reframe my geographic footprint through divestments?
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How EY can help
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Our operational separation team can help you with planning and execution of separation processes, people and systems. Learn more.
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EY-Parthenon professionals recognize that CEOs and business leaders are tasked with achieving maximum value for their organizations’ stakeholders in this transformative age. We challenge assumptions to design and deliver strategies that help improve profitability and long-term value.
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EY corporate finance consultants combine deep financial and capital markets experience with advanced decision support capabilities and analytics to help the CFO drive sustainable value for all stakeholders.
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Discover M&A advisory services from EY when you buy and integrate. We help enable strategic growth through integrated mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances.
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Our team can help respond to business challenges, providing leadership and crisis management that help companies recover and preserve value.
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Our transaction tax, law and workforce team can help you transform your business and maximize the value of your transactions. Find out more.
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Find out how EY teams can help with joint ventures and strategic alliances. Contact the EY joint venture team to help your business respond to change.
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EY sustainability and ESG strategy consulting teams can help you with strategy, M&A, capital allocation, ESG due diligence and portfolio optimization.
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