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Meet L.E.K. Consulting

L.E.K. Consulting is an international corporate advisory firm with around 450 professionals worldwide. The company is run as a single resource unit with 15 offices throughout Europe, the United States and Asia-Pacific. There are more than 60 professionals in the Asia-Pacific region, based in offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai and Beijing.

Our experience covers a broad range of industries, ranging from large, state-owned utilities to small, entrepreneurial technology firms. The Bangkok office has between 20 and 25 staff and is the regional hub for Southeast Asia.

The L.E.K. approach is founded on rigourous economic, financial, market, competitive and operational analyses applied to the areas of corporate and business unit strategy, shareholder value (or Value Based Management), and mergers and acquisitions.

Business Strategy: At the corporate level, L.E.K. provides advice to businesses, undertaking portfolio reviews, formulating turnaround and diversification strategies, planning and implementing organisational restructuring, restructuring and turnaround and advising on issues of corporatisation and privatisation. Consulting services at the business unit level include growth, profitability and market attractiveness studies, relative cost and benchmarking comparisons, segmentation and competitor reviews.

Shareholder Value: L.E.K. is a thought leader in the shareholder value movement, linking strategy development directly with the implementation of Value Based Management.

The application of VBM provides a mechanism for strategy validation at a corporate and business unit level. Identifying key performance indicators that have a direct and measurable link to value creation, allows value-linked performance measurement and compensation at an operating level.

L.E.K. has successfully implemented VBM within major corporations in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Mergers and Acquisitions: L.E.K. offers unique mergers and acquisitions capability in searching for target candidates, commercial due diligence, valuation, corporate finance advice and post-acquisition integration.

In asset sales and business disposals, our strategic and financial expertise is deployed in valuation (stand-alone, synergistic and strategic), identification of potential buyers, execution assistance and negotiation tactics. The firm has served in this role in more than 300 completed transactions valued at a total of approximately US$200 billion.