Mergers & Acquisitions

When properly planned and implemented, mergers and acquisitions offer a legitimate growth strategy for companies of all sizes. However, when they fail, they often cause damage to company infrastructure, loss of key employees and damage to the company brand and bottom line. We help increase the success potential of your acquisitions by partnering with you from a HR standpoint to evaluate, plan, execute, and integrate acquisitions.

VF&Co's consultants are seasoned HR professionals with at least 20 years of relevant experience, including numerous mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and business turnaround situations. We focus on the key HR disciplines of culture, compensation, benefits, HR process and technology solutions simply because these are critical in M&A transactions. We provide a conceptual framework for communicating and managing the sequence of discrete activities and tasks during the HR M&A project life cycle. All members of our team are well-versed in our standard analysis, implementation and project management framework and technology-based tools. We are also proficient in a full array of HR-related products and services that support M&A due diligence and rapid business integration.

Pre-and post-merger due diligence process tools include

  • HR financial risk management tools
  • HR process and technology solutions
  • Re-engineering of HR core processes
  • HR/Payroll data consolidation
  • HR technology and data integration assessment
  • HR business integration products
  • Outsourcing analysis and planning
  • Key employee retention program
  • Severance impact analysis
  • Executive contract review for hidden cost of termination
  • HR/benefits service center planning and deployment
  • Integration evaluation and follow-up process
  • Strategic change management
  • Cultural assessment and problem resolution
  • Change management strategy
  • Communications process
  • Key project methodology components
  • Deal research and discovery
  • Pre- and post-signing due diligence and planning
  • Integration plan syndication and approval
  • Integration implementation/completion
  • Post-integration assessment