Growth by Strategic Acquisition

While organic growth is an important component of any healthy company, double digit percentage increases in net cash are difficult to attain without large new business wins, significant cost cutting, or both. Strategic acquisition of a complimentary firm can deliver large-scale customer acquisition that far exceeds the normal capabilities of organic growth. It can also enable rapid expansion of the service portfolio while stimulating operational refinement. The result is a three-pronged approach to driving positive cash flow growth over a relatively short time period.
 
Cogent Growth Partners works with owners of IT Services firms to help them understand the power of ”Growth by Acquisition”. We help our clients evaluate their overall business to create a strategic growth plan and work with them to pre-stage the business as a platform for becoming a “Strategic Aggregator” in their market. We identify complementary companies who might be candidates for acquisition, evaluate them, negotiate the deal points and close acquisitions on behalf of our clients. Ultimately, we help our clients integrate each acquisition after closing.

The Cogent Difference


Many organizations considering growth by acquisition assume they would need a large war chest of cash to fund the strategy. In fact, Cogent employs a variety of deal structure models that enable our clients to successfully execute accretive acquisitions, often out of ongoing cash flow and without using third-party investment capital.
 
What makes Cogent Growth Partners different from other M&A firms is our focus specifically on the IT Services industry, and our Operational depth in this space.  Cogent's Principals have deep IT Services expertise, encompassing business, financial, technical and operational aspects of the business.
 
We leverage that expertise through a unique life-cycle approach that allows us to impact not only every acquisition, but also the overall strength and performance of our clients’ businesses. This unique approach allows our clients to mitigate risk while they dramatically increase the value of their most important asset – their business.