Getting culture right is critical for M&A success

Guest speaker

Carly McCoy

Principal, Mercer’s M&A Advisory Services
Guest speaker

Brent Heslop

Global M&A Business Transformation Leader, Mercer

The “Delivering the Deal” spotlight series is where Mercer’s leading experts discuss the most pressing issues facing business leaders and deal professionals in M&A today.

In this podcast, we are bringing you an interview with Carly McCoy, a principal at Mercer’s M&A Advisory Services, and Brent Heslop, Global M&A Business Transformation Leader at Mercer, highlighting the critical importance of culture related to deal success. This interview covers:

Lessons in leadership alignment
Steps to prioritising culture
Actions needed to reduce culture risks
Client examples of integrating culture

Interesting moments from the podcast:

Deal value

“We focus on prioritising the most significant and material risks to the deal value.”
Culture risk

"Culture is not a nice to have. Culture risk is deal risk and to ignore it we do so at our peril."
Aligning priorities

"You can’t overstate the importance of getting leadership aligned already to what are the critical priorities you want them to focus on."
Deal complications

"Change is hard in organisations and the more complicated the deal the harder it is."

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