Getting culture right is critical for M&A success

The “Delivering the Deal” spotlight series is where Mercer’s leading experts discuss the most pressing issues facing business leaders and deal professionals in M&A today.

In this podcast, we are bringing you an interview with Carly McCoy, a principal at Mercer’s M&A Advisory Services, and Brent Heslop, Global M&A Business Transformation Leader at Mercer, highlighting the critical importance of culture related to deal success. This interview covers:

Lessons in leadership alignment
Steps to prioritizing culture
Actions needed to reduce culture risks
Client examples of integrating culture

Interesting Moments from the podcast:

“We focus on prioritizing the most significant and material risks to the deal value.”
"Culture is not a nice to have. Culture risk is deal risk and to ignore it we do so at our peril."
You can’t overstate the importance of getting leadership aligned already to what are the critical priorities you want them to focus on.
"Change is hard in organizations and the more complicated the deal the harder it is."