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Post-M&A Services for Corporate Clients

After the match is before the match. After the successful completion of a transaction there is often still a lot to do. We are here to support you and your team.

Importance of the Post-M&A-Process for a Successful Transaction

As the saying goes, nothing is ever easy. This applies to interpersonal relationships as well as to M&A transactions in the business world.

A post-M&A process can therefore be crucial to the long-term success of a transaction for a number of reasons:

  1. 100-day Plan: We help you develop and implement a 100-day plan for the transaction, ensuring that all necessary steps are taken to finalise the transaction and, colloquially speaking, put the power on the pavement as soon as possible.
  2. Integration of the Companies: After two companies have merged or one has acquired the other, the different business units and processes need to be harmonised and often organisational adjustments need to be made. Our post-M&A process helps to make the integration more efficient and smoother. This includes the harmonisation of employee structures, IT systems, business processes and corporate cultures.
  3. Implementation of the Business Plan / Realisation of Synergies: We sit down with management and employees to provide clarity on the business plan and ensure that all parties are moving in the same direction. Often M&A transactions are designed, among other things, to create synergies to reduce costs or realise revenue potential. The post-M&A process is crucial to ensure that these objectives are met in reality. This requires precise analysis, planning and implementation.
  4. Risk Management: The integration of companies always harbours various risks, including financial, legal and operational risks. As part of our post-M&A process, we help you to identify, assess and manage these risks in order to minimise potential problems or losses.
  5. Communication: Communication with various stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, lenders and investors, is crucial to build trust and maintain transparency during the M&A process. A structured post-M&A process enables clear and consistent communication.
  6. Value Maximisation: A key objective of any M&A transaction is usually to create value for the shareholders. A well-planned post-M&A process helps to maximise and monitor the value creation process, ensuring that the merger or acquisition is successful and achieves its objectives.
  7. Compliance and Legal Requirements: M&A transactions are often subject to various legal requirements and regulations. The post-M&A process ensures compliance with these regulations in order to avoid legal and regulatory problems further down the line.
  8. Controlling and Reporting: Monitoring financial performance and other key metrics is crucial after a transaction. This allows the parties involved to track progress and make adjustments where necessary.

In summary, a structured and well-executed post-M&A process helps to increase the likelihood of a successful transaction, minimise risk and maximise value for all parties involved. It is an important final step at the end of a complex and challenging transaction process that requires careful planning, resources and expertise.

DTRAG’s Role in the Post-M&A Phase

DTRAG can take on a variety of tasks as part of the post-M&A process to ensure that your transaction runs smoothly and achieves its objectives. Here are some of the key tasks we can take on for you:

  1. Development of an Integration Strategy: If this has not yet been developed in detail, DTRAG can help develop a comprehensive integration strategy that sets out how the two companies should be brought together. This includes the identification of priorities, synergies, integration opportunities and required organisational adjustments.
  2. Due Diligence: If this has not yet been finalised, we can also coordinate a due diligence process after a transaction has been completed by conducting a thorough review of the financial, legal, operational and strategic aspects of the target company. This is crucial to ensure a sufficient information base for the successful integration of the target into the new parent company.
  3. Drafting of an Integration Plan: Based on the integration strategy and due diligence findings, a detailed long-term integration plan and a 100-day plan are typically created, according to the latter the steps with the highest priority are enacted. These plans include concrete, measurable milestones, a clear allocation of tasks with appropriate time frames.
  4. Risk Management: DTRAG can help identify and assess risks during the integration phase and develop risk mitigation plans. We can compile a systematic red flag report to support your risk management efforts.
  5. Synergy Analysis: DTRAG can also support you in identifying synergies post-transaction, whether in the form of cost savings, sales potentials or other value creation opportunities. We can also help with the implementation of synergy plans.
  6. Organisational Development: DTRAG can help you to develop an optimal organisational structure for the merged company and assist with the effective integration of employees.
  7. Communication Strategy: DTRAG can develop a communication strategy to keep all relevant stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, lenders and investors, informed of the progress and changes to the business.
  8. Change Management: An important task is to develop and implement change management strategies to ensure that employees can accept and successfully implement the planned organisational and strategic changes.
  9. Controlling and Reporting: DTRAG can help set up controlling systems and reporting structures to monitor financial performance and integration progress. This can also include the development of a professional financial model that provides management, shareholders and external stakeholders (such as banks) with transparency about the company’s strategy and performance.
  10. Legal and Regulatory Compliance: DTRAG can ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met during the integration process, with the help of external experts as required.
  11. Training and Education: DTRAG can develop training programmes to ensure that employees are familiar with the new processes and systems.
  12. Post-merger Evaluation: Once the integration has been completed, DTRAG can carry out a regular evaluation of the success of the transaction to ensure that the intended objectives have been achieved and recommend adjustments, if necessary.

The exact tasks DTRAG undertakes may vary depending on your needs and the objectives of the transaction. In any case, professional M&A advice can be crucial to ensure that a merger or acquisition is successful and that the expected value enhancement potential is realised.

Contact Us

If you should be interested in learning more about DTRAG’s post-M&A services offering, please contact us anytime on kontakt@dtrag.de. We are looking forward to meeting you.