Operational and financial, together
The attainment of synergies and the financial levers, growth, margin, multiple, and leverage, on one reconciled waterfall. The total value, not half of it.
Feature · Value Creation modelling
Operational and financial value, on one live bridge
The Atlantic Deal Value bridge puts the attainment of synergies and the financial levers on a single waterfall, and keeps it live. Anticipated value updates as information reaches the transformation programme, not once a quarter.
Available as a Value Creation project type or a Deal Value module on Integration and Divestiture. Validated across 30 public case studies.
What the bridge does
A live value bridge that ties operational attainment to the financial model, not a static chart you rebuild by hand.
Live, from your meetings
Anticipated value recomputes as decisions and progress surface in your transformation meetings. Meeting Intelligence reads them live and attributes them to the operational value legs, so the bridge reflects the deal today, not the last quarterly pack.
Synergies as the operating legs
Revenue synergies land on the growth leg, cost synergies on the margin leg. The synergy plan is the operating value in the bridge, ramped to realisation.
Anticipated, planned, realised
Each leg overlays its anticipated height, the plan line, and the realised fill, with percent attained, so underwrite and actual read at a glance.
Validated across 30 public case studies
Computed by an LBO engine tied out against 30 public case studies. MOIC, IRR, and returns follow, and the Excel export ties on the same inputs.
Every value driver, decomposed
Growth, margin, multiple, and leverage are modelled explicitly, the same decomposition set out in the founding LBS dissertation, so you can see which lever carries the return.
Underwrite to boardroom
The bridge follows the value-creation programme through its whole life, updating as it goes.
1Underwrite
Set the targets
You enter the plan: growth, margin, multiple, and the synergy vectors. The humans set the number the bridge measures against.
2Model
Build the bridge
The engine computes the base and base-plus-synergy runs, resolves each leg, and lays out the anticipated bridge, operational and financial, from entry to exit.
3Track
Watch in real time
As information reaches the programme, anticipated value recomputes and realised value fills in, with percent of plan attained. No scoring, no recommendation.
4Report
Present the story
Export the bridge, the attainment, and the variance to a board-ready deck, or hand the tied-out Excel model to the deal team.
Questions, answered
What is total deal value creation?
The operational value, the attainment of synergies, and the financial value, growth, margin, multiple, and leverage, combined on one bridge. Atlantic tracks the total, not the model or the synergy tracker alone.
What does real-time mean here?
Anticipated value recomputes as decisions and progress surface in your transformation meetings, captured live by Meeting Intelligence and attributed to the operational value legs. Current practice waits for a manual financial rebuild each quarter.
Where does the method come from?
A distinction-awarded London Business School dissertation, supervised by Professor Eli Talmor, co-author of the standard PE textbook International Private Equity, decomposing operational and financial value creation on the Debenhams buyout.
How is double-counting avoided between organic and synergy?
The engine runs the model twice, once on the base case and once on base plus synergy. The difference is the synergy value, so organic and synergy add up to the total without overlap.
Where can I use the value bridge?
As its own Value Creation project type, or as the Deal Value module on an Integration or Divestiture project. Same engine and same bridge in both.
Put the whole story on one bridge
Operational and financial value, live, on a method twenty years in the making and validated across 30 public case studies.
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