Celerant Consulting and CDI Global Create an Alliance to Drive Improved Results for Merger, Acquisition and Turnaround Situations

LEXINGTON, Mass., June 22 MA-Celerant-CDI
Alliance Optimizes Success of Mergers, Improves Synergy Capture and Creates Corporate Value

LEXINGTON, Mass., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Celerant Consulting, Inc., part of the global Celerant management consultancy group specializing in delivering operational improvement, recently announced the development of a formal alliance with CDI Global, a consultancy specializing in acquisitions, divestitures and mergers. Celerant has long focused on the implementation and sustainability of operational improvement initiatives, including post-merger integration synergy capture and operational turnaround programs for stressed acquisitions. By combining this experience with CDI Global's strong pre-deal search and advisory capabilities, clients will now have access to an end-to-end solution that maximizes acquisition outcomes.

"CDI Global is an uncontested leader when it comes to target evaluations, acquisition strategy, valuations and negotiation," said Stuart Mills, Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Initiatives for Celerant. "Paired with our focus on operational due diligence and post-deal value optimization, clients will now be well-poised to substantially raise the bar on returns from acquisition initiatives. Given current global economic pressures, this increased performance will be a necessity."

"Celerant and CDI Global both place the attainment of tangible business value at the heart of what we do," said Rick Sommer, CEO of CDI Global. "Our shared focus will help clients deliver on the promise of acquisitions and mergers at a time when unrealized expectations could harm viability more than ever."

About Celerant Consulting
Celerant is a global management consultancy that provides international strategy and business transformation consulting and delivers operational improvement that helps the world's leading companies to achieve and sustain real gains in bottom-line performance.

Celerant's difference is simple -- we believe that once we have fixed a problem for a client, it should stay fixed.

First we spend time understanding the needs of an organization. Then we analyze the challenges faced before recommending a tailored change program designed to deliver measurable results, now and into the future. This involves our industry experienced consultants working side-by-side with people in the front line of your business -- from the Boardroom to the shop floor -- to ensure the delivery of sustainable and measurable benefits.

As a result, last year Celerant delivered over $1bn in annualized sustainable savings to its clients.
www.celerantconsulting.com

About CDI Global
CDI Global is a company search firm specializing in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, and alliances, with a record of over thirty-five years of success in this field of activity. We know that finding appropriate candidates with the right profile and determining their level of interest is not easy. However, our focused search methodology utilizing personal interviews by CDI Members who have held senior level positions in industry, combined with our broad contact network, provides unique benefits to our clients. Our experience enables us to speak the language of an industry, and understand strategic synergies and opportunities that will improve return on capital.

CDI operates in over 35 countries around the world and has completed over 1,000 assignments.

SOURCE Celerant Consulting