Overview

EkA Global Business Development, Market Research, and Strategy

Financial Service Solutions

“Rule number 1: Never lose money. Rule number 2: Never forget rule no. 1.” — Warren Buffett

Financial Services Practice —

The advice, decision support, and application of research driven solutions directed toward projects and management solutions that attract investors, and/or, facilitate product distribution launches; and the identification of associated opportunities and risks.

Delivery — Look to EkA for the delivery of functional expertise with project management skills that span the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, levering proven success as evidenced by —

Advising, delivering, sourcing, and structuring Joint Venture partnerships totaling US $750 million

Arranging Private Equity financing totaling US $375 million

Delivering expansion strategies that increased profitability by an average of 1.6x

Directing project management teams and providing market research analysis on engagement totaling US $ 1 billion

Increasing market share and revenues more than US $100 million

Managing, training, and motivating over 350 professional

Orchestrating Mergers and Acquisitions in excess of US $1 billion from pre-deal to post-deal

Providing analysis, dynamic due-diligence, research, and strategy development within 51 countries

Winning over US $12 billion in new business

Specialization — Within the financial service domain, EkA delivers customized financial service decision support and client driven solutions that are —

Achieved via a proprietary all-encompassing 360^o approach

Actionable, cost effective, and value-added solutions

Indomitable in meeting the needs of both user (buy-side) and provider (sell-side) clients

Unbound by horizontal and vertical styles of ownership and control

Universal applications that transcend all standard industrial classifications and other functional groupings

Services — EkA offers expertise in —

Business Portfolio Assessment

Change Management

Financial Modeling and Synergy Analysis

Mergers and Acquisitions

Operations

Performance Management

Planning and Implementation

Research

Sales and Marketing

Strategy

Benefits — By applying best-practice elements of success, capitalizing on the client’s core values, finding opportunistic solutions, and identifying key information within foreign-markets, EkA offers a true value proposition, clients benefit from —

Actionable information and insight

A global experience and worldwide entrée to decision makers and senior managers

Development and implementation solutions that support profitable growth

Value propositions that encompass the access to information, insights, and strategies

Applications — EkA speaks your l@nguage! —

Acquisition Analysis and Planning	Innovation
Adaptation to Foreign Market Needs and Cultural Diversity	Internal Reorganization
Arbitration	Investment Strategies
Assessments	Investment Research and Buy/Sell Decisions
Asset Productivity	Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
Business Plans	Market Segmentation
Best Practices Performance Standards and Benchmarking	Migration and Implementation
Business Continuity and Crisis Management	Monitoring
Buyer Awareness, Qualification, and Retention	Negotiations
Capital Efficiency	Next Generation Cost Reduction
Capital Equipment Financing	Opportunity Assessments
Capital Requirements	Organizational Buy-in
Change Management	Organizational Performance Monitoring
Commodity Business	Partnering
Communication Strategies	Placements
Competitive Assessments	Planning
Compliance/ Sarbanes-Oxley	Pre and Post-merger Integration
Control, Modeling, and Planning	Presentation Skills
Convergent Opportunities and Technology Transfers	Pricing Policies
Customer Relations, Service, and Client Retention	Price Sensitivity
Customer and Employees Satisfaction	Private Equity
Distribution Strategies	Product and Service Bundling
Due-diligence	Product Development
E-business Strategies	Production Optimization
Emerging Markets Research	Profitability
Executive Development	Research
Export Financing	Restructuring
Foreign Exchange	Risk Assessments and Management
Financial Planning and Proposals	Startups
Finding Opportunities	Strategic Alliances
Funds	Strategic Procurement and Sourcing
Globalization	Team Building
Growth Strategies	Value and Trust Creation
Industry Trend Studies	Value to Equity Partners
Incentives and Motivation	Venture Capital

Clients — Clients, current and prospective, include Fortune 500, Global 2000, government, and start-up organizations. Typically, they are from the Agribusiness, Automotive, Capital Goods, Electronics, Energy, Financial Services, Food & Beverage, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Retailing, Technology, and Telecommunications industries and sectors: Offerings cover the entire lifecycle of transactions.

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