Overview:

We've all heard the stats-as many as three out of four transactions fail. But what's behind those numbers? What makes one deal successful, while most Merger and Acquisition Strategies fall short of recovering the cost of capital? Our answer: Decision Making. After leading over 75 integrations ranging in size from $10 million to $10 billion, we know that too many integrations lack a clear approach for effectively making the multitude of decisions required for a successful combination. Project Leadership as one of the Leading Merger Acquisition Company has developed an approach to effectively address this root cause of failures. We speed up the entire process of integration, protect leadership credibility and help mitigate risks along the way. Through our Accelerated Merger and Acquisition Integration, Project Leadership can guide your organization through every phase to unlock the full value and potential of the deal. "Thanks to Project Leadership, I have been able to confidently share with Wall Street that our merger integration planning efforts have exceeded my expectations and set us up to achieve our synergies as quickly as possible. The feedback from Wall Street on our progress has been very favorable." CEO of a $2 billion manufacturing firm

Services:

  • Accelerated Integration Planning. Leverage our proven approach to avoid common stumbling blocks and attain deal value fast.
  • Post-Deal Reviews and Playbook Development. Utilize this in-depth merger and acquisition analysis tool to identify untapped opportunities from past deals and improve your organization's competence on future transactions.
  • Acquisition Pipeline Management. Good integrations start with good deals. Project Leadership can help you define a controlled process for evaluating acquisition, JV and partnership opportunities. We have a collaborative tool based on the Microsoft SharePoint platform that keeps all of your resources coordinated on the most strategic deals.
  • IT Integration and Due Diligence. Leverage Project Leadership's deep experience in IT and IT Strategy to make sure your deal is successful across applications, infrastructure and IT support processes.

Benefits

  • Shave months off the integration effort and realize enhanced profitability and revenue synergies quickly.
  • Drive progress and decision making even before the deal is closed or the organization structure is defined.
  • Remove barriers to integration and allow results to be realized fast.
  • Focus the energy within the organization on customers and competitors-not the internal distractions that accompany every deal.
  • Retain key talent-even in the face of uncertainty and turmoil.
  • Turn the theoretical benefits of the deal into hard dollars fast.
If you're interested in learning more about Project Leadership's Merger and Acquisition Integration Services, please contact Bob Zagotta at rzagotta@projectleadership.net or 312-441-0077. We offer free, no obligation executive briefings and share our lessons learned from over 100 transactions.