Accelerating M&A Integration | Caroline Jones w/ Kison Patel

Описание: Integrating an acquired company is always challenging. Acquirers must execute quickly and efficiently, navigate changes, and preserve the target company's value.

In this episode of the M&A Science Podcast, Caroline Jones, Senior Director - Acquisition Success at Cisco, discusses how to accelerate M&A integration.

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00:00 Intro
01:13 Background
05:29 What does acquisition success mean?
06:36 How do you accelerate M&A integration?
10:23 Corp Dev and integration working together
15:31 Effect of integration on LOI
16:30 Synergy model and capital expenditures, where does that come in?
18:25 Approvals Required
22:06 Integration planning
24:58 Team structure
27:06 What value do you see when you move to that fewer cross-functional team?
30:33 Big value outcome
31:42 Do you get involved in pre-diligence?
34:24 Pure execution of integration, how do you accelerate that?
36:33 What does Cisco look at through integration? Equity value or enterprise value?
40:09 Do you use steering committees?
41:16 How many people would you have in there?
42:06 What's the agenda in those meetings?
42:46 How does accountability work in your organization?
44:22 When you say commit, what does that look like?
45:36 First commit versus the latter commit before you close
49:50 More Lessons learned when doing deals
53:02 Leadership Alignment
55:48 Craziest thing in M&A

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