The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) experts Tim Galpin and Mark Herndon present an updated and expanded guide to planning and managing the M&A process. This comprehensive book is unique in providing the tools to address both the human and operational sides of integration. Based on the authors' consulting experience with numerous Fortune 500 companies, this resource will help organizations capture deal synergies more quickly and effectively. Augmenting their step-by-step advice with helpful templates, checklists, graphs and tools, Galpin and Herndon provide sound guidance for successfully integrating different processes, organizations, and cultures. The authors also address pre-deal do’s and don’ts, people dynamics, common mistakes, communications strategies, and specific actions you can take to create measurable positive results throughout the integration process. The revised edition not only updates case studies and presents recent integration research, but it also adds new tools.

Timothy J. Galpin is associate professor at the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management and a senior?fellow with Katzenbach Partners, LLC.?He has over twenty years of experience as a management consultant and business manager based in Europe and North America.

Mark Herndon is president of Parkwood Advisors, LLC, a management consultancy focused on a broad range of strategic and business effectiveness initiatives, including M&A strategy, due diligence, and integration management.