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Exit Services
Make Microsoft Maturity Visible, Credible And Transferable Before The Next Transaction.
Partner Development Group is a Microsoft-recognized organization focused on maximizing the value of the Microsoft relationship for Partners of all sizes. With 80+ years of combined Partner Development experience, we are more than consultants — we’re your team’s trusted partner. Using our proprietary framework and the guidance of our Microsoft Partner Development Directors, we prepare your Microsoft standing for the scrutiny of a transaction.
WHAT YOU GET
A buyer cannot pay for Microsoft value it cannot see, and it will discount Microsoft value it cannot verify will transfer. Most partner businesses arrive at a transaction with real ecosystem strength that exists in practice but not on paper.
- Verified structure. Partner Center, Partner IDs, tenants and CSP relationships documented as a buyer's diligence team will expect to find them.
- Commercial maturity. Marketplace offers, transactability, co-sell readiness and incentive history, evidenced rather than asserted.
- Transferability. Which Microsoft relationships, designations and credentials survive a change of ownership, and which do not.
- Key person dependencies. Where Microsoft knowledge and access sit with individuals, and what a buyer will price as risk.
WHAT TO EXPECT
We establish what the business can actually evidence about its Microsoft standing, and where a diligence team would find gaps. Runway matters here more than on any other engagement.
- An honest baseline. What your Microsoft standing looks like to an outside diligence team, before they are the ones assessing it.
- A documented position. Microsoft-facing progress captured on paper rather than held in people's heads.
- A dependency plan. What can realistically be documented or transferred before a process begins, and what cannot.
- Time to act. Twelve months out there is room to earn, document and transfer. Six weeks out there is only time to describe what already exists.
The key to success with PDG is the fact that we don’t offer generic responses or repackaged and repeated talking points. We take the time to get to know your organization, understand your pain points and priorities, and develop a custom roadmap specific to you.
Exit Readiness also works in reverse. Acquirers use it to understand how a target will present itself, and sponsors use it early in a hold period to set the standard the business will be measured against later.
What We Are, And What We Are Not
PDG owns the specialist Microsoft ecosystem workstream inside an exit readiness program. We are not a general M&A consultancy, an investment bank, a business valuation provider, a legal or financial adviser, or a generic technology migration vendor. We work alongside your advisers, not in place of them.
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