M&A deal phases

Completing the Deal: A New Phase in the M&A Life Cycle

Chairman's Message, September 2015
by Jim Jeffries, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council

The deal is not complete at close.  It may not even be complete at the end of integration. To fully capture the value of the deal means going beyond integration to optimization and/or transformation.  How well do you know the stages that occur in the process of carrying out a merger or acquisition?