Buyer-Led Plays

Synchronize due diligence with integration planning to maximize deal success and streamline operational integration. Aligning these processes enhances resource efficiency and improves team integration, ensuring smoother transitions and better outcomes for all involved.

This M&A play focuses on successfully executing large-scale acquisitions by emphasizing strategic alignment, thorough integration planning, cultural sensitivity, and proactive stakeholder communication. The approach combines rigorous upfront due diligence with robust post-merger integration strategies to maximize value creation and minimize disruption.

This play is designed to validate the acquisition plan before proceeding with the transaction.

Time is crucial in M&A. Buyers must quickly decide whether to pursue a deal to save time and money.

Proactive M&A is one of the most effective ways to transform your business and stay ahead of the competition.

M&A is complex and requires quick decision-making to overcome overlapping challenges. Efficient decision-making frameworks can help resolve issues and avoid bottlenecks.

Diligence is usually separated into two phases, with totally different purposes, and the questions need to be asked accordingly. This play is designed to speed up the due diligence process and make your list as efficient as possible.

An integration lead must fit a specific type of profile/role that can only be found within an organization. Run this play to identify who is best suited, from your own organization, to lead integration efforts for a specific deal.

A tabletop exercise is a great way to stress test processes and plans involving functional leads and domain experts. Use this play to perform a tabletop exercise, and simulate a deal to solidify existing integration plans and identify areas that would break if said integration plans were to be executed.

The clean team is a group of special people operating under specific protocols before regulatory approval and deal closure. This play is designed to help organizations build a dedicated clean team.

In any post-deal management, there are always disagreements on how to get things done. Each side will have varying beliefs about what is permissible and what is not regarding contracts, legislation, or risk tolerance. Execute this play to settle disputes and arrive at an objective solution peacefully.

M&A is a powerful tool that can accelerate business value, but it requires hard work and vision. A thesis serves as the blueprint of an acquisition’s projected value that is aimed toward achieving the overall corporate strategy. This play is designed to help new acquirers develop a corporate strategy and an M&A thesis.

This play, created by Kerry Perez, Vice President, Enterprise Strategy at AMN Healthcare, is designed to shorten the diligence memo for readability during hand-off to the integration team.

This play is designed to maintain alignment between your integration team by keeping your integration plan simple.

Use this guide to set instant alignment with business leaders and developers. Identify key roles to be engaged in the next steps of business development or integration.

Find out how to effectively determine integration cost. Avoid and prepare for often overlooked costs and integrate the target company properly.

See whether the business performs optimally. Increase time for sale preparation. Maximize the value for your business. Assess the business units.

Learn how to retain acquired employees and inform them about the change the best way. See how to prepare for the changes that will come after announcement day.

Avoid negative effects on Integration. Educate the corporate executives about quantity of decisions they need to make. Simple 5-Step tutorial.

Uncover the best M&A Technical Due Diligence Checklist and Practices. Learn about the critical points such as Strategy and Leadership.

Manage the level of support and engagement of your stakeholders during a divestment. Learn about different & best methods how to measure engagement.

"Engage all key Stakeholders with this communication plan. 5 fundamental steps to drive engagement throughout the divestment. Increase M&A value."

Learn how to Maintain strong communications with your staff and customers after acquisition. Ensure the performance and value of the business entity.

Learn about popular function that provides support, information and direction. Ensure the M&A process is consistent, transparent and managed correctly.