People and culture are at the heart of achieving successful M&A change:

• Strategy - How do we develop a comprehensive strategy and operating model tailored to our unique business needs?

• Culture – How do we assess cultural differences, identifying common values, and crafting strategies to foster collaboration and a high-performing culture that will drive the new strategic roadmap?

• Value – How do we unlock synergies that arise from the activity, capturing cost savings, revenue enhancements, and operational efficiencies?

• Change Management – What is the business impacts of the change and how do we equip our leaders with the tools they need to lead their teams through the transition, minimising resistance, and maximising adoption?

A robust due diligence exercise should always be the first step to ensure a full understanding of the risks and opportunities.

• Post-merger integrations: We work closely with you to identify value creation opportunities across the operations (including people and culture, data, technology, and operations). We quantify value creation opportunities, develop implementation plans and provide ‘hands-on’ support.

• Separation and divestiture: We help you to design and establish the separation plan, governance structure, and work with you to prepare an operational handbook and the day one solutions (including transitional services), as well as the full standalone model and related separation cost impact.

We have done this before, and you are in safe hands. The DCR team members have partnered with business leaders and private equity to design, plan and successfully execute M&A activity.

We bring a senior led approach and deep subject matter expertise in key areas you will need during the change such as strategy and operating model, design, and architecture, change management, technology and data, cyber and operational resilience.

M&A activity is expected to continue, and we therefore focus on building your own internal capability, ensuring knowledge and skills transfer with your own team.