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Mergers & Acquisitions Planning

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

Our consultants are seasoned HR professionals with at least 20 years of relevant experience, including numerous 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, and provide a conceptual framework for communicating and managing the sequence of discrete activities and tasks, of the HR M&A project life cycle. All members of the team are well versed in our standard analysis, implementation and project management framework, 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-deal 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
  • 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

 

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