Private equity support services
GIC has worked extensively with UK-based and international private equity companies to provide research support services such as market and company due diligence services and opportunity identification.
GIC is uniquely positioned to provide these services as independent games market experts with 14 years’ experience of analysing and working with the games industry and dealing with investors of all sizes and types.
GIC tracks and maintains comprehensive databases of all games-related mergers and acquisitions, fund-raising activity in the private and public markets as well as games companies and investment opportunities worldwide.
To date, GIC has worked with over 15 venture capital or private equity investment firms on games transactions. We are fiercely independent and provide 100% objective appraisals and valuations of opportunities, enabling potential investors to reach accurate valuations, assess strengths and fix flaws in business models.
We have provided the following to our clients in this area:
• Tailored investment opportunity identification based on geography, company size, business model or market
• Market validation and due diligence
• Company financial due diligence and valuation validation
• Company strategy due diligence
• Company management due diligence
• Company product and technical due diligence
On the right is an example of one of our past research consulting projects.
THE KEY AREAS OF OUR RESEARCH AND MARKET ANALYSIS WORK ARE:
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CASE STUDY Investment due diligence Client: A European mid-market private equity fund Date: 2009
Brief: GIC was tasked with assessing the investment opportunity represented by a leading European games development, publishing and distribution company. GIC was selected as impartial games industry experts that could present an honest and undiluted appraisal of the target company’s information memorandum, business plan, growth strategy and management team and determine the suitability of the business for the investor client and the proposed valuation. Time frame: 2 Weeks Deliverables: GIC assessed all of the due diligence documentation, prepared a detailed list of additional due diligence questions and attended meetings with the target company’s management at which these questions were posed and the answers discussed. GIC provided written and oral feedback and opinions to the investor client during and at the end of the process.
Result: In this instance, the investor client, based on the responses received during the due diligence meetings and the feedback provided by GIC, decided not to proceed with the investment. Although a large proportion of the due diligence projects that GIC has worked on have resulted in the investor client making an investment, this case illustrates that GIC is not afraid of providing negative opinions where they are warranted. Link: _ |