The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M & A Integration at Every Level (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

Based on the authors' consulting experience with numerous Fortune 500 companies, this resource will help you capture the synergies of your next merger or acquisition 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 dos and don'ts, people dynamics, common mistakes, communications strategies, and specific actions you can take to create measurable positive results throughout the integration process.

TIMOTHY J. GALPIN is President of Integration Partners, LLC, and has been involved in over thirty successful mergers. He is the author of two previous books, The Human Side of Change and Making Strategy Work, both from Jossey-Bass.

MARK HERNDON serves as regional leader for Merger and Acquisition Services with Watson Wyatt Worldwide. As a consultant on more than twenty integration assignments, his work has focused on designing and implementing merger integration approaches that maximize the speed, synergy capture, and strategic communication of the deal.