M&A Advisory and Strategy for the Offshore & Marine Industry

Dockstr is a specialized advisory firm focused on the offshore industry, offering expertise in engineering, operations, and strategic analysis.

We provide tailored support for M&A transactions, market assessments, and investment opportunities, helping clients navigate complex challenges and achieve exceptional outcomes with real-world insights that address the unique demands of the offshore and marine sectors.

Key Advices Services

Dockstr’s advisory services cover a broad spectrum of needs within the marine and offshore industries, with particular expertise in the following areas:

Market Research and Analysis: Offering deep insights into market dynamics, competitor landscapes, and emerging opportunities, helping you plan your strategy accordingly.

Company assessment: Providing a comprehensive evaluation of your company’s position within the market, including competitive standing, strengths, and areas for growth.

Technology Review: Evaluating technologies to identify opportunities for innovation, cost savings, and enhanced competitiveness in a changing landscape.

Asset & Project Review

Investment Initiative: Assessing or reviewing business opportunities such as asset addition or retirement to evaluate their potential and strategic alignment.

Fleet Optimization: Assessing your marine asset and equipment pool and defining strategies for the acquisition, operation, and disposal of vessels to maximize value.

Economic & risk Evaluation: Evaluating projects or assets through cost benchmarking and technology review, from the early conceptual stage to full operation.

Market & Strategic Assessment

Mergers and Acquisitions Support: Providing expert guidance throughout the M&A process, from identifying potential targets to conducting due dilligence and negotiating deals.

Valuation Services: Offering realistic valuations of companies, fleets, and marine assets to support merger, pricing and internal assessement of business opportunities.

Post-Merger Integration: Facilitating the efficient integration of acquired assets and operations by streamlining the asset and equipment pool, ensuring synergies are realized and optimizing business continuity.

M&A Advisory

Why Choose Dockstr for Marine Advisory Services?

Dockstr offers expert marine advisory services, with a track record of helping clients navigate the complexities of the offshore and marine industries. Here’s what sets us apart:

  • Industry Expertise: Our team of highly experienced professionals and expert consultants, brings unparalleled knowledge and insight into the marine and offshore sectors.

  • Tailored Solutions: We understand that every business operates in a unique way, and we are flexible, adapting our team and approaches to fit the culture and requirements of each project.

  • Technology/Dataset: By leveraging our internal dataset and systems, we support clients in assessing complex markets and making informed decisions on strategy and investment.

  • Global Perspective: Leveraging our global network, we access a wide range of companies and specialists to complement our internal expertise. This ensures our work is grounded in real-world knowledge, offering valuable insights into market changes and the industry supply chain.

Success Stories in Advisory Services

Dockstr has played a crucial role in the success of numerous marine and offshore companies.

Our advisory team has facilitated major mergers and acquisitions, guided businesses through complex strategic processes, and supported many investment initiatives.

Our clients consistently express high satisfaction with the professionalism and expertise brought by our team.

Future of the Offshore Energy

The future of the energy sector is shaped by complex drivers including energy security, transition, sustainability, circularity, and new technological advancements. These factors are deeply impacting the industry across various regions, leading to the emergence of new players focused on segments like offshore wind, while existing companies transform their operations, workforce, and assets to adapt to these changes.

Dockstr is at the forefront of these developments, offering advisory and brokering services that prepare your business for future challenges and opportunities. We are actively involved in a range of assignments and projects, from assessing the asset fitness of companies entering new markets to managing the disposal of outdated equipment.

Our services are designed to help you reallocate capital effectively and strategically position your business for success in an evolving industry landscape. Whether navigating emerging technologies or optimizing asset portfolios, Dockstr provides the expertise needed to drive growth and adapt to market changes.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

  • We provide advice and expertise that combine the technical, commercial and financial elements of marine and offshore projects. This could be in the context of a M&A transaction, a strategic/market review, the assessment of an investment opportunity or the due diligence of a business/company. We occasionally work alone, with partners or in a complementary role within our clients’ teams.

  • Our core team has vast technical and commercial experience in our core sectors which is complemented by our pool of expert consultants in the fields of marine operations, hydrographic survey, offshore construction, subsea cable installation and wind farm development. 

  • We are quite unusual in the advisory space because we combine real-world experience in engineering, projects and operations with a proven track-record in strategic thinking, economic analysis and financial acumen. Our flexibility means we are able to advise both industry newcomers and established players in our target markets by complementing their teams or undertaking discrete and independent scopes of work.

  • Within the last 12 months we have undertaken buy-search mandates, floating wind technology assessments, a wind farm costing project and numerous valuation assignments. But these provide only a small sample of the many consultancy projects by Dockstr over the past 5+ years.

  • It’s not just offshore contractors and service companies that benefit from our advisory offering. Financial institutions such as private equity firms and investment companies, energy and utilities companies and ship owners have all taken advantage of Dockstr’s ability to provide a more dedicated and focussed service compared to more generalist consultancies and investment banks.

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