More than $2 trillion is spent on acquisitions every year, yet 70% to 90% of M&A deals destroy value.

Despite the often staggering expenses incurred upstream of M&A operations (due diligence, strategy and communication consulting, risk assessment, market testing), they often represent a painful process. Fundamental issues may be overlooked, lack of in-depth understanding of the target’s success factors, over-confidence on the part of certain managers, over-estimated synergies or savings, lack of a targeted census, culture shock…. The possibilities for complication are numerous.

So how do you integrate without disintegrating?

Our mediators help companies to identify what creates long-term value for shareholders, employees and customers, and to avoid short- and medium-term pitfalls. They help the various parties involved navigate this complex and perilous process. Their in-depth experience of conflicts in this field and their unique methods and tools ensure that the process runs smoothly and productively.

These enable the underlying reasons for the transaction to be crystallized and preserved, the respective cultures and beliefs to be revealed, potential obstacles to be anticipated, creative solutions to prevent future disagreements to be proposed, and everyone to freely deploy their leadership, while realizing the ambitions of the transaction.