As business evolves so does your company’s goals and objectives. Consolidation can be forced by regulation. Growth can lead to acquisitions to fill a need in a more expedited fashion. Merger mania can create synergy between two entities.
No matter what way your company changes or what combination your business explores, getting the chemistry correct for the future is one of the first jobs of a deal.
People spend a great deal of time working on the numbers and making them work. That is the financial side of the deal. How those numbers bear fruition is dependent on how two entities become one.
It takes a great deal of time to determine how the business is going to function in the future. It is not just who is going to do what but how what they do is going to impact others.