Business Restructuring – Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances: Services Overview

It requires innovative, comprehensive services supported by proprietary tools, execution-driven playbooks and proven approaches. It requires tight linkage between merger planning and merger integration. It requires a practical, results-driven approach.

To become and remain fast and effective acquirers, companies must make immediate improvements to their merger and acquisition (M&A) processes to keep pace with leading practices. And they must set their sights on achieving a new level of M&A capability—one that goes even beyond the very best that serial acquirers have today.

The best performers in M&A deals today have reinvented their merger integration with four new approaches. These approaches accelerate the time to value by bringing the most valuable activities forward, increasing the likelihood they will lead to high performance.

Accenture sees four ways in which today's leading companies are fast-tracking their most valuable merger integration activities. Leading companies are:

• Jump-starting merger integration activities before the merger closes.
  
  
• Addressing corporate culture clash before it begins.
  
  
• Prioritizing the merger integration agenda according to the value contributed before conventional task assignments take hold.
  
  
• Learning from merger integration insights before deciding what to buy and how much to pay.

In whirlwind times like these, it pays to have partners who’ve been through it all before. Whether you’re an acquirer or a likely target, you need someone whose big-picture view and rapid response quickly enable you to gauge the risks of the deal to factors such as your corporate brand, financial structure, integration and employee buy in.

Accenture has been involved in more than 400 merger and acquisition engagements over the past five years. We have created methodologies and proven practices based on our experience in M&A, our business acumen and our deep industry knowledge.

Accenture's vast range of experience and capabilities in mergers and acquisitions can be leveraged as a total solution or individual services may be used:

• Pre-Deal M&A Advisory: We develop an integrated, robust acquisition strategy that will serve as your growth platform.
  
  
• Transaction Analysis/Strategic Due Diligence: Once a deal is in the works, we conduct a number of analyses to determine the true value of the deal.
  
  
• Merger Integration: We work with you to tailor an approach that can be used across integration efforts, at the same time allowing flexibility to address the uniqueness of each transaction.
  
  
• Corporate Transformation/Divestitures: We help companies use divestitures to create strategic value for the overall entity.
  
  
• Alliances/Joint Ventures: We can help companies focus on six fundamental factors to achieve real value from alliances.
  
  
• Shareholder Value Analysis: Accenture's Shareholder Value Analysis uses proprietary assets and frameworks to identify hidden sources of value at the operational level so executives can make the tough decisions.