What obstacles does the IT industry currently face? The last few years have been, to say the least, odd. Companies of all sizes have been confronted with various challenges, ranging from a sudden demand for remote and at-home work to drastic shifts in the security landscape.

Digital transformation has accelerated, with its worth expected to reach $1,009.8 billion by 2025 alone. Businesses everywhere are spending more on innovation prospects.

In various ways, the technology business is undergoing a phenomenal expansion of new opportunities. Even though the pandemic has been brutal during the past few years, it accelerated digital change by around seven years. Currently, technological solutions are emerging quicker than ever.

Technology is the key to surviving the pandemic and securing the long-term success of businesses. The rapid pace of digital innovation observed by 97% of executives has not been easy for everyone to manage.

Cloud, social, mobile, and digital technologies drive disruptive change within the technology sector. Companies are confronted with new business models, fast-expanding technologies, and markets.

How we assist

Investment opportunities

Damalion identifies investment opportunities for international private equity firms seeking to buy out or get shareholding position in IT companies with great potential of growth at local and global scale.

Choosing the right investment vehicles

Damalion expert team support private equity firms and other international investors to setup the right corporate structuring solutions among regulated or unregulated investment funds or special purpose vehicles .

We also review the tax impacts and propose solutions to optimize the return on investment.

Identifying the right IT experts

Damalion selects experts to be analytical advisors in software, hardware, services, Internet, and semiconductor. They provide insights into the interconnected strategic, operational, financial, and technological difficulties plaguing the industry.

IT deployment in company’s life cycle

We build up expert team to integrate businesses, their executives, stockholders, and creditors during all phases of a company’s life cycle. We offer strategic, financial, and operational counsel and hands-on execution for business model innovation, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, due diligence, integration, and separation.

In addition, we may provide experts in interim management, balance sheet restructuring, and the valuation of intellectual property (IP), copyrights, and royalty streams in various technology industries. Our expert teams deliver recommendations that have been polished by analytical rigor and years of industry experience.

What we bring

Forecasting, Valuation, and Transaction Consultation

Our clients rely on our valuation and industry specialists, who understand the complexity of predicting assets and businesses in markets that are in constant flux. Our consultants contribute to intellectual property assessment, financial analysis, industry expertise, and hands-on experience to every client engagement.

Financial opinions & valuation services include :

• Transactional viewpoints
• Fairness, liquidity, collateral valuation, valuation of intellectual property and intangible assets, and going concern opinions
• Opinions on financial report preparation
• Purchase price allocation and impairment of goodwill
• Valuations of the portfolios of private equity funds, hedge funds, banks, and other capital market participants.
• monetary incentives, options, and “cheap stock.”
• Revenue recognition for multi-element licensing arrangements.

Services for tax analysis and planning opinions include:

• view on estate and business taxation
• Valuations of businesses, minority interests, and assets
• Equity/share-based incentives and service compensation

Financial and strategic transaction advising services include the following:

• Forecast preparation evaluation
• Support for strategic choices and transaction structuring
• Transaction due diligence (forecast assessments & development, independent valuations)
• Transaction assistance for capital-raising and M&A initiatives.

Information Technology

Businesses should invest in technology to either increase operational efficiencies or maintain competitive advantages in their service markets. Damalion’s seasoned technology experts focus on technology transformation, tying IT to strategic business objectives to decrease costs or out-innovate the competitors.

Interim Management

At some point, all Interim Management Companies confront strategic, operational, financial, or market-driven issues, which, if not handled effectively, result in a loss of investor support and confidence.

Damalion experts may act as interim managers to satisfy investors and owners. Experts have executive leadership, including at the C-suite level, during critical periods, or while pursuing specific objectives.

Litigation Assistance

Damalion brings accredited experts for litigation assistance, investigative, consulting, and expert witness services. Our team of specialists in IT sector consists of, among others, lawyers, chartered accountants, certified fraud examiners, valuation experts, and insolvency professionals with knowledge of networked industries, antitrust, and intellectual property.