The intelligent clean room: ensuring value capture in mergers and acquisitions

摘要

As more and more companies opt to supplement organic growth with mergers and acquisitions, the earlier stages of M&A transactions are becoming relatively mature, commoditized processes. Differentiated performance and, ultimately, successful mergers will increasingly depend on the later stages of M&A transactions. This will be particularly true of post-merger integration, where the relentless and accelerated pursuit of value creation is still underappreciated - and under practiced (see Figures 1-6 for further insights).