M&A & Transactions | Article
Due Diligence and the Quiet Cost of Weak Integration
Where transaction value is created — and most often lost.
Insight Advora LLP8 min read
Two documents, one business
Commercial and financial diligence answer whether to proceed and at what price. Integration planning answers how the combined business will operate. When those workstreams do not meet, assumptions are inherited without being tested.
Give assumptions owners
A synergy without a named owner, a baseline and a date is a number in a model. Assigning each one before close turns the model into a plan management can govern.
Decide what not to integrate
Full integration is not always the value-maximising answer. Deciding deliberately what stays distinct — systems, brands, operating routines — protects the parts of the acquired business that were worth buying.
Advisory support, not regulated services
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Key Takeaways
- 01Carry operational diligence findings directly into the integration plan.
- 02Give every synergy assumption an owner and a baseline before close.
- 03Plan the first hundred days as an operating programme, not an announcement.
- 04Separate what must be integrated from what can remain distinct.
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