Client context: Specialty chemicals and materials manufacturer headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with approximately €3B in annual revenue.
The situation
The corporate development team was evaluating a growing pipeline across geographies and subsectors. Its senior professionals could lead strategy and negotiation, but concurrent opportunities required more detailed financial, technical and market analysis.
Fluctuating deal flow made flexible analytical capacity relevant to the staffing decision.
The work
Nexteam supported the company with corporate development professionals combining industry knowledge and analytical experience. Their work included:
- Financial analysis, market assessments, technical capability evaluation and synergy analysis.
- Standardised evaluation templates, financial models, tracking and reporting.
- Competitor, technology, geographic and regulatory research.
This allowed several opportunities to move through analysis concurrently while the core team focused on strategic decisions and execution.
The results
The case records a 200% increase in deal-evaluation capacity, alongside shorter analysis turnaround, deeper diligence and more efficient resource allocation.
The public summary does not specify the capacity baseline, measurement period or transaction mix behind that percentage. It measures evaluation capacity in this engagement, not completed acquisitions or investment returns.
What this case illustrates
For corporate development, flexible support needs more than spreadsheet capacity. The brief should identify the sector knowledge, source quality, analytical outputs and senior review required for each deal.
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