CHICAGO | MINNEAPOLIS 

Commercial Operations Excellence & M&A Commercial Due Diligence

CE2 Partners builds scalable commercial strategy and execution systems for mid-market industrial and industrial-like manufacturers, distributors, and service businesses preparing for accelerated growth, private equity ownership, or a transaction.

Clients have growth ambition. The constraint is execution: the commercial model does not scale.

COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS | Commercial 360 (C360)

Commercial 360 (C360) is our assessment and execution framework, delivering a fact-based view across strategy, go-to-market, pricing, sales execution, and performance management—identifying where growth stalls and margin leaks.

We prioritize high-impact initiatives and build operating systems—go-to-market structure, sales operations, pricing discipline, and KPIs—so growth converts into revenue and margin.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Quality of Commercial Performance (QoCP) is the commercial analog to a Quality of Earnings.

Sell-Side
QoCP tests whether the commercial story withstands buyer underwriting—pressure-testing growth assumptions, execution risk, customer durability, and pricing power before diligence. We strengthen the narrative pre-market and align the model to the forward case so valuation holds.

Buy-Side
QoCP determines whether the commercial engine can deliver the forward case—validating the thesis, surfacing risk, and defining required change post-close.

COMMERCIAL INTEGRATION
Transactions do not create growth—commercial integration does.

We design the future commercial model pre-close and lead execution post-close—defining how companies fit, how go-to-market and pricing evolve, and where synergies are real.

Pre-acquisition: define the Day-1 and Year-1 blueprint.
Post-acquisition: implement—aligning leadership, structure, incentives, pricing, and KPIs so growth materializes.

Our work spans strategy and execution. 

Contact Katie Hoch
Katie.Hoch@CE2partners.com 
(612) 618.6886

CE2 Partners

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