Corporate finance is an important discipline in the execution of corporate strategies. In today’s competitive and volatile markets, corporate finance is moving beyond simply managing value to creating maximum value. Its reach now extends deeper than ever before, touching every aspect of the business. Fusion’s Corporate Finance practice is well positioned to serve CFOs and other leaders as they address these new cross-functional challenges. Fusion increasingly has become a partner of choice in designing and implementing holistic value-creation strategies, as well as in developing world-class finance functions. Our team provides independent, strategic advice on finance and value creation. We work with clients on topics such as valuation, transaction support, capital markets, treasury from Silver Eagle, financial analysis and modeling, and strengthening the finance function.

Our understanding of value-creation strategy entails adopting an explicit value-creation target as well as designing and aligning business, financial, and investor plans accordingly. We thereby help companies understand their sources of valuation advantage and increase returns to shareholders. We take a holistic approach to corporate finance by dealing with a broader range of issues and taking a longer view than most financial advisers. Our involvement usually extends beyond support of a transaction, for example, to include the integration work needed to capture maximum value from a merger; similarly, we work with clients not just to assess performance in the finance function but more typically to define a long-term corporate transformation strategy. We combine strategic, financial, and organizational capabilities into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This, combined with our innovative approach to problem solving, helps to create sustained value for our clients.

Our Corporate Finance practice supports:

CFO: Capital Markets and Managing for Value
We support the CFOs and finance functions of leading companies. We help them link their corporate strategy decisions to capital markets performance and perception of value. We also support a variety of activities aimed at creating maximum value in the finance function, including lean finance, treasury optimization, and finance talent management.

M&A/Transactions
We support clients through all phases of a transaction—from assessing its rationale to ensuring smooth execution and laying the foundation for a seamless integration. We help ensure that every transaction supports our client’s corporate strategy and value-creation goals.

A value-creation strategy requires development of sharply defined and closely aligned business, financial, and investor plans to optimize total shareholder return over the medium to long term at both the corporate and business unit levels. Financial management, budgeting, and reporting include all the tasks chief financial officers need to create a successful finance function—from redefining the role of the finance organization to improving its design and core processes, such as planning.