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Realize Deal Value Drivers
Mergers and acquisitions have the potential to create significant value and competitive advantages. But the challenges of integrating an acquired company— or even standing up a new entity that must still align to your strategy and operational structure — are extensive. BDO’s M&A Integration services are designed to help you achieve your transaction priorities, value drivers and synergies while you focus on running your business.
M&A integration planning begins during due diligence, defining integration priorities, governance, people and culture aims, and your future state business vision and roadmap to achieve it. Our M&A integration support helps ensure Day 1 readiness, and advances toward the achievement of Day 100 objectives and realization of synergy targets.
Our professionals have extensive experience in M&A integration strategy development, planning and execution, across industries, with companies from emerging to large, and with both acquiring and acquired companies.
Our key services include:
- Development of integration strategy and priorities
- Day 1 planning and readiness
- Integration Management Office (IMO) set-up and implementation
- Operating model design
- Cultural assessment and culture integration planning and support
- Communications and change management strategy and implementation support.
- Integration and synergy capture planning and execution
- Integration playbook development
How BDO Can Help
BDO offers M&A integration services to help your organization achieve its goals.
Reduce Risk
Assess synergy targets and manage deal risk throughout the transaction process.
Coordinate Integration Efforts
Define Day 1 requirements and key milestones to integrate people, processes, systems, and data.
Capture Entity Value
Secure early value capture wins and maintain momentum.
Develop Workforce Strategies
Develop people and culture strategies and solutions to decrease risk and accelerate value creation.
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M&A Integration Frequently Asked Questions
Integration should be an early consideration. (i.e., validate your integration hypotheses during due diligence and start integration planning before closing to address Day 1 imperatives). Define an integration strategy, the target operating model, and an integration governance structure.
Focus on and prioritize the deal value drivers. Define the sequencing of integration activities across all integration teams and understand interdependencies.
Identify or appoint synergy owners and develop detailed synergy capture plans. Define synergy targets and metrics and implement a tracking process.
Establish clear metrics and KPIs to evaluate integration success based on deal value drivers, such as financial performance, customer retention, and employee satisfaction. Regularly review these metrics and adjust strategies as needed to ensure the integration is on track to meet its objectives.
Culture and change management are critical components of a successful M&A integration. Aligning organizational cultures and managing change effectively can help minimize disruptions and enhance employee engagement.
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