Post-deal services

In many ways, a deal starts at completion because it is here where the benefits and the value that the deal was designed to deliver need to be realized.

Deals often fail to deliver their value forecast for a number of reasons. Often, it lies in the lack of integration between the business and its newly-acquired asset. Delivering a business plan to justify the acquisition requires considerable resources.

A transaction represents a significant change to the business, one that requires careful management if the anticipated benefits are to be turned on quickly.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has an extensive experience of helping businesses integrate new acquisitions. We have teams of individuals with 'in-line' industry experience.

We have developed specific tools and techniques that have proven their worth in other transactions. Their early application can save considerable time and money for a business.

If this is your situation

• You are integrating an acquisition and you are concerned it will consume valuable time and resources, detracting from the focus on the core business. Any number of factors could be why a transaction is slow to bed down and start creating the value that was projected for it.
• You have issues with employee management. The successful management of employees is essential to effectively tap into the benefits of a transaction. Where competition for talent is keen --attracting, motivating and retaining employees can be difficult. By creating increasingly complex employee benefits and compensation programmes, companies need to have a clear picture of how these programmes integrate and whether they serve their objectives.
• Your deal is not delivering the potential value forecast when originally put together.

• Our dedicated teams of professionals work on-site to help manage the changes that a deal generates in an existing business.
• We address the immediate concerns of the acquirer over the first 100 days of the acquisition and produce detailed action plans to deliver value from that deal.
• We also carry out post-deal reviews after six (6) to 12 months to assess whether objectives are being met and if not, how to get them back on track.
• Our broad knowledge of human resources issues allows us to give practical advice on employee management. We help our clients navigate through a wide variety of employee programmes and help them choose the best programmes to achieve all the potential synergies.