Hands-on, collaborative support can help lead you to successfully integrate an acquired business or implement a joint venture while navigating potential issues and pitfalls.

If you’re contemplating growth and consolidation through an acquisition, there are many aspects to consider.

While parties on both the buy- and sell-side will need to take some of the same steps beforehand, actions to consider on the buy-side include:

• Preclose due diligence management, including integration, synergy, human resources, operations, and IT assessments
• Synergy identification, prioritization, and planning
• Program management office mobilization, program execution, and support from diligence through transformation
• Preclose merger planning
• Organization design and functional operating model development
• Planning and execution spanning 100 days
• Business readiness and stabilization
• Functional integration, including tax, finance, accounting, information technology, operations, and human resources
• Synergy project execution and business transformation