Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures offer fantastic growth opportunities, but organizations often encounter challenges in delivering or realizing the expected value due to inadequate due diligence, poor preparation and execution, or the inability of management to fully appreciate the effort involved in delivering a successful transaction.

HOW MAZARS HELPS

Our M&A Consulting specialists have years of vast deal experience, a broad range of skills, and deep industry expertise. We provide due diligence, transactional services, audits, risk assessments, and merger integration plans that drive tangible value. We leverage our proven processes and tools and adapt them to fit our clients' unique objectives and cultures to craft adaptive solutions that will help you move confidently through the life cycle of every deal.

PRE-DEAL STRATEGY

Providing you with a clear, defined strategy that includes key measurements for success and organizational readiness

 

M&A Advisory		Deal Rationale
Divestiture Support		Agreements
M&A Readiness		Tax Structuring & Planning
Transition Services

 

HOLISTIC DUE DILIGENCE

Providing detailed reports and assessments that identify undisclosed risks and validate financial/functional opportunities aligned to your business strategy

 

Quality of Earnings		Dispute Resolutions
IT Due Diligence		Valuation & Modeling
Structured Finance		Regulatory Assessment & Remediation
Cybersecurity Due Diligence		Tax Risk Assessment
Organizational Change Leadership

 

POST-MERGER INTEGRATION

Providing right-sized plans that coordinate activities, minimize risk and protect value while driving positive change in the new business environment

 

Integration Planning		System Integration
Cyber Risk Remediation		Cultural Integration
Tax Attributes & Planning		Integration Management Office (IMO)
Organization Design		Organizational Change Leadership
Process Harmonization		Optimization of Tax Methods

 

We help companies to:

Define and strengthen your business rationale and key value drivers   Conduct financial, tax, operational, IT, regulatory, cybersecurity, and human capital due diligence   Identify risks, opportunities, and costs while maximizing integration value     Manage and mitigate risk through assessments, internal audits, controls and corrective actions, data quality assessments, and data analytics   Develop clear, comprehensive integration plans and playbooks to increase transparency into integration efforts across all functions and protect against value erosion   Ensure successful transition and integration for employees, focused around a vision everyone can understand and be willing to embrace