Mergers and integration
The price is the easy part. Most value is lost in the first hundred days, so we plan day one before you sign, and stay until the two businesses run as one.
When clients call us
If one of these sounds familiar, this practice is for you.
You plan to buy a company or merge two businesses
The deal case rests on the seller’s model
Closing is close and day one is not planned
Promised synergies are not showing up
What we offer
Three ways into this practice
Commercial diligence
The real value of the target, tested on customers and data rather than the seller's model. You know what you are paying for before you sign.
Synergy plans
Synergies with owners and dates, not just a number in the model. Each one is tracked from signing until it shows up in the accounts.
Day-one readiness
Customers, staff and systems ready on the morning the deal closes. Day one feels like business as usual, because it was planned that way.
What you get
What stays with you when we leave
See it in practice
Lumen Bank
Two retail networks became one bank, with no branch closure anyone regrets.
9 mo
To full integration
Read the case
Questions, answered
Before we begin
Do you work buy side and sell side?
Both, but never on both sides of the same deal.
How fast can you start?
Diligence teams usually start within a week of the first call.
Do you stay after closing?
Yes. Most clients keep us through the first hundred days of integration.
How do you keep our information confidential?
Every engagement starts with an NDA. Data stays on your systems or in an encrypted workspace, and we never advise a direct competitor at the same time.
How do you measure the result?
We agree two or three numbers before we start, such as margin or cycle time, and report on them during the work and for a year after.
Let’s find the right question first.
Thirty minutes with a partner. No pitch deck, no obligation.