2x-digit
EBITDA uplift from combined revenue, cost, and capital levers
Up to 90%
synergy over-delivery and months-faster cash-flow realization
Sustained cultural alignment through people-first integration routines
How we partner
Deal strategy and target identification
- AI-enabled market scans rank industries, geographies, and adjacencies against your strategic guardrails.
- Pre-LOI fact packs lay out bid ranges, synergy theses, and board-ready decision paths.
Commercial due diligence (CDD)
- Quantify and prioritize profit pools across end markets and addressable markets—sizing demand, assessing molecule-switch threats, and testing sustainability drivers to steer high-return growth plays.
- Shape advantaged positions with dynamic cost-curve and capacity insights—revealing margin headroom, capital-efficiency levers, and EBITDA resilience through peak-to-trough stress tests.
Operational due diligence (ODD)
- Identify hidden asset value with chemistry-based yield diagnostics, zero-based resourcing, and on-site partner walkthroughs to maximize throughput and capital efficiency.
- Capture the full cost upside by integrating procurement levers, SG&A and R&D efficiency programs, and operating-model redesign to fortify EBITDA under diligence.
Merger integration and synergy acceleration
- Clean-room analytics and synergy summits lock targets and owners before Day 1.
- Integration management office dashboards track cash, risks, and culture in real time.
Separation and carve-out readiness
- A separation management office designs stand-alone operating models and TSA blueprints.
- Financial and legal disentanglement road maps protect the parent while fast-tracking SpinCo independence.
Why Kearney?
- Deep chemicals PE and M&A expertise. We have a global team of more than 40 senior leaders and 150 dedicated consultants with more than 40 chemicals diligences and multiple value-creation programs for PE-owned chemicals assets in the past five years.
- End-to-end investment life-cycle support. We support transactions from pre-acquisition to exit stage, focusing on creating value during the holding period and maximizing value during the exit period.
- Benchmark advantage. Our Synergy Insights database covers 300 global deals (more than 100 delivered by Kearney), letting teams pressure-test targets in minutes.
- Broad diligence expertise. We bring ODD, CDD, and VDD expertise across a wide range of chemicals assets, including specialty and commodity chemicals players, polymers players, materials companies, chemicals park operators, tank terminal operators, oilfield services players, and several more.
- High-impact transformation (HiT) approach. We bring a PE-tailored approach to rapidly create material gains to increase the operating cash flow by addressing every line of P&L and supporting value creation through the investment cycle.