Ownership Transactions

Putting the needs and concerns of your employees on the back burner during a business or ownership transaction may not jeopardize a deal from closing or moving forward, but it can impact its successful integration or adoption. This happens because these types of changes are hard work for employees and leadership teams, physically and mentally. 

According to Harvard Business Review, between 70 and 80 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail to produce the results originally expected. These lack-luster results aren’t because of bad business strategy or number crunching, it’s because post-event, employees are not strongly aligned to go-forward visions, priorities or culture. We know the playbook on this type pf work and have first-hand experience working with companies during these exciting and fast-moving times. We understand the collaboration needed between Strategy, Finance and Legal teams through diligence and as deals develop, the partnership required between functions and departments to dig-in on the details, and the criticality of coordinated communications strategies to ensure employees have clarity and are not overwhelmed or confused as new processes, systems or projects are implemented.

• Merger

• Acquisition

• Joint venture

• Initial Public Offering

• Divestitures

• Company rebrands/naming