Driving Growth

Conventional deal-making methodologies may not be enough to deliver projected value and control activism in corporate development. To succeed tomorrow, what worked yesterday may need to evolve and adapt to an increasingly fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. Companies need agility, fresh discernment, and a high tolerance for disruption to seize market opportunities. 

Corporate development teams are working harder than ever, but hard work may not be enough to create successful transactions. In current deal environments, new levels of creativity and forward thinking from corporate development professionals are mandated. 

While M&A transactions are a significant component of the Lefever Group, it’s more holistic than that. Typically, we investigate opportunities through M&A or divestitures. It may also include identifying partner and supplier opportunities, where to outsource, how to optimize productivity, which lines of product or service should be introduced (or severed) and more. 

A corporate development strategy is our actionable plan with the goal of growing/restructuring a business or establishing partnerships. To create a corporate development strategy, teams look inward at a company’s products or services, along with competitors’ offerings and trends.

Sean Lefever is a leader of people and manager of operations interconnecting technology with business – primarily in high-tech, CPG/retail, and manufacturing/automotive channels.

With more than 20 years of diversified business experience and leadership, Sean has an operations mindset, guiding and counseling business development through complex dealings, scaling high growth, cultivating strategic partnerships, and fusing disparate interests for win-win outcomes.