M&A

People expertise. Sustained performance.

In a world characterized by business model disruption, inorganic growth strategies are increasingly critical to success. With investor pressure coming from all sides, the current dynamic deal environment requires a combination of know-how and effective execution to deliver sustainable value today, tomorrow and well into the future. It also demands a dynamic mergers and acquisitions strategy.

Thanks to our global scale and local footprint, Mercer has the business acumen, deal experience and people expertise to solve your toughest people challenges — we can work anywhere in the world and act at a moment’s notice. We aim to help you maximize value, mitigate risk and moderate costs to capture the full value of your deal.

The diversity of our clients — in terms of size, maturity, industry sector and geographic location — means we can collaborate with all types of organizations to tackle a broad range of issues. Simply put, we know what needs to be done — when, how, why and by whom. We can work with you to manage the most complex deals, streamlining every step of the process to drive growth and help your business soar to new heights.

What makes Mercer different?

70+

years of deal experience

1400+

transactions annually

140+

country operations

60%

cross-border transactions

28+

languages

Our global advisors work with corporate acquirers and financial investors on both the buy and sell sides of M&A deals. Let us help you mitigate your most difficult workforce risks by leveraging our extensive human capital expertise alongside our global insights and world-class capabilities across all lines of business.

Strategy and readiness

Investment thesis research
M&A readiness assessment
M&A playbook development
M&A Ready™ training

Due diligence

Human capital due diligence
Separation diligence
M&A talent insights

Pre-close planning

Integration planning
Separation planning
Turnaround planning
Project management office
M&A talent insights

Post-close

Day One readiness
Integration management
Transition service agreement support
Separation management
M&A talent insights
Synergy capture

Driving long-term deal success requires thoughtful and well-executed integration. Building on the findings of due diligence, our approach to integration planning includes:

Developing a comprehensive integration strategy and roadmap to deliver on the end-state vision for Day One and beyond
Establishing project-governance principles, including those relating to decision-making, issue escalation and communications
Understanding and identifying the critical components of the cultures of both organizations, and developing an integration approach that will maintain them
Outlining a communication and change-management strategy to support the new operating environment

To deliver enhanced deal value, buyers and sellers need workforce expertise combined with real-world, practical and tactical execution experience on a global scale. This is what we provide.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As)

In a world characterized by business model disruption, inorganic growth strategies are increasingly critical to success. We have the business acumen, deal experience and people expertise to solve your toughest M&A challenges. We can act at a moment’s notice.

Divestitures / Carve-outs

Strategic dispositions, including divestitures and carve-out transactions can unlock hidden shareholder value, generate cash to fund growth and innovation. For a seller, paying close attention to workforce risks, can maximize sale price, increase speed of sale and enhance profitability. For a buyer, acquiring an incomplete business due to seller entanglements presents many challenges. Ensuring business continuity, and strategically building a "fit for purpose" organization across structure, process, systems and most importantly people is critical for success.

Restructurings and turnarounds

Successful turnarounds require both financial restructuring and planned operational recovery. Aligning human capital strategy with strategic objectives is crucial for success.

Joint ventures and strategic alliances

Joint ventures and strategic alliances provide quicker results than building an entirely new business. They also appear to present less complex logistical challenges than acquisitions. Yet misaligned strategic goals, unclear governance, skewed operating models, indistinct workforce strategies and cultural mismatches can lead to underperformance.

Our focus

Heightened competition means buyers often have to commit without performing adequate due diligence, mitigating risk, determining compliance issues or fully developing post-merger integration plans. Mercer’s project management operations (PMO) approach combines world-class process management with real-time consulting. The result is the rapid identification and mitigation of risk.

Workforce strategy

Determine critical roles and the talent needed to drive success. Formulate workforce strategies to address any gaps.
Operating model

Develop your future strategy and operating model, including organization design, governance and decision rights.
Talent assessment, retention and onboarding

Maximize deal success by assessing talent, identifying and selecting leaders, and retaining critical skill sets.
Change management and communication

Conduct change management planning and integration focused on moving key stakeholders from both entities.
Culture

Identify cultural risks to deal objectives, and build a comprehensive integration strategy and operating environment.
Talent insights

Implement an AI-based approach to understand skills, identify risks and retention implications pre-close, and develop post-close talent strategies.
HR technologies

Create the HR delivery platform required to support strategic objectives.
Global benefits and policies

Understand, align and optimize benefits programs. We do this in more than 150 countries and for organizations of all sizes.
Rewards

Determine whether executive, sales and general incentives help achieve synergies between organizations.
Retirement

Understand, align and optimize pension plans, and mitigate associated risk globally.

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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

People expertise. Sustained performance.

What makes Mercer different?

Throughout the lifecycle of the deal

Successful M&As require integration planning

Driving value across all transaction types

Our focus

Workforce strategy

Operating model

Talent assessment, retention and onboarding

Change management and communication

Culture

Talent insights

HR technologies

Global benefits and policies

Rewards

Retirement

Additional M&A advisory solutions and products

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