Global Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Post-Merger Integration for Aerospace and Defense

At Accenture, we have helped hundreds of our clients to achieve high performance by identifying and extracting the value from an M&A.

The best performers in M&A deals today have reinvented their post-merger integration with new approaches. These approaches accelerate the time to value by bringing the most valuable activities forward, increasing the likelihood that high performers will actually realize the benefits promised in their initial M&A business cases.

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

• Jump-starting merger integration activities before the merger closes.

• Addressing corporate culture clash before it begins.

• Prioritizing the post-merger integration agenda according to the value contributed before conventional task assignments take hold.

• Learning from post-merger integration insights before deciding what to buy and how much to pay.

We back our Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) services with decades of experience and a suite of proprietary tools and methodologies. Accenture has been involved in more than 400 M&A engagements over the past five years. Pre-deal, our Cultural Value Analysis provides you with the information to help evaluate the fit between your organization and your acquisition target. Our Intelligent Clean Room identifies synergies before the transaction is completed, allowing the merged organization to begin realizing value as soon as the transaction is complete. Other tools and methodologies govern our work throughout the course of the pre-merger, merger and post-merger integration processes.

Accenture's vast range of experience and capabilities in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) can be leveraged as a total solution or as individual services:

• Pre-Deal M&A Advisory: We develop an integrated, robust acquisition strategy to serve as your growth platform.

• Transaction Analysis/Strategic Due Diligence: Once a deal is in the works, we conduct detailed analyses to help you determine its potential value.

• Post-Merger Integration: We work with you to tailor an approach that can be used across integration efforts, while giving you the flexibility to address the uniqueness of each transaction.

• Corporate Transformation/Divestitures: We help you use divestitures to create strategic value.

• Alliances/Joint Ventures: We help you focus on the fundamental factors that drive real value from alliances.

• Shareholder Value Analysis: Accenture's Shareholder Value Analysis uses proprietary assets and frameworks to help identify hidden sources of value at the operational level of your organization.