merger / acquisition

Your Objectives
Create a plan of action to:

Ensure the realization of anticipated merger or joint venture benefits
Improve the likelihood of a successful integration to quickly and effectively merge your organizations
Deal effectively with integration process and change management issues
Effectively deal with customers and suppliers affected by the merger
Analyze your financial position to assess where and how strategic and operational synergies can be maximized

How We Can Help

Provide acquisition advice and assist in a due diligence review
- Assist in focusing your strategy and requirements in the merger or acquisition activity
- Identify and review matters which might obstruct the proposed transaction
- Examine the history and development of the business
- Identify management weaknesses past and present
- Review key products, services and suppliers
- Examine the business model to assess if the model works as represented, is sustainable and scaleable
- Determine the true source of profitability and the quality of the earnings
- Assess the reasons for the lack of profitability and developing recommendations for improvement
Help you develop a transition strategy and plan
- Assist the executive in creating an environment to develop and appropriately articulate the strategy and vision for the transition
- Develop the integration of specific performance measures and communication principles
- Define the post-merger integration project organization
- Develop redesign objectives, assessing merged structures, assets, capabilities
- Formulate recommendations and business cases
- Assist in the development of a program management plan to be able to track progress and status, and keep actions aligned as planned
Help you smooth the merger through transition design and implementation
- Cultural alignment and transformation
- Organizational realignment
- Asset rationalization
- Product and customer realignment
- Core and support process realignment
- Systems integration

Benefits
You benefit by:

Achieving strategic and operational synergies more quickly, to a greater degree and with greater certainty
Maximizing the returns on your merger acquisition investment
Making the transition as smooth and efficient as possible
Leveraging new capabilities from the acquired organization into existing markets
Ensuring a sound and reasoned decision on M&A proposals
Avoiding historical biases based on access to limited information
Having well defined and understood merger objectives
Building new platforms for growth by rebuilding core businesses and identifying opportunities for sustained growth
Maintaining adequate communication and leadership during the merger
Avoiding the resistance to integration in favour of sustaining business as usual
Maintaining a sense of control and customer focus during a busy period

Our Experience
Our experience includes:

Numerous studies/analyses to assess the impact of merging two or more organizations on staffing levels and organizational structures
Assistance in the post merger integration of organizations such as large insurance companies and international helicopter airline companies