Realizing value from M&As, divestitures, joint ventures and post-merger integration requires making the right strategic decisions and proactively managing the business portfolio over time. There a shortage of perspective on how to do this well. Historically, 30% of financial strategy implementations have resulted in failure.

There is thus no shortage of failures to learn from, many of which are unknown to the outside world and yet are in some cases spectacular. More than half of all M&A transactions and post-merger integrations end up destroying value. Whether a result of poor strategic fit, cultural conflicts, insufficient due diligence or thwarted execution, the remarkable truth here is that these statistics are from normal healthy economic conditions.

Today, the conditions for business are not normal. World GDP is shrinking and bedrock trade conventions are buckling and the strains of global reconfiguration under intense inflationary pressures. Historically, such economic climate portends fewer M&As. Divestitures, JVCs and Spinoffs by contrast should see a resurgence as investors leverage synergies to offset cross-functional and cross-jurisdictional innovation risk.

Our teams compliment the leading financial and legal advisors heading mergers and acquisitions in post-merger integration. Our focus is on the enterprise data, IT and operational aspects of the businesses. We provide the same strategic decision support in executing divestitures, joint ventures and spinoffs.

Or goal is to help you prevent alignment debt that could undermine integration and separation activities later, killing deadlines and inflating costs and reputation risk unexpectedly.