This book shows you how to make the M&A dream an M&A reality. If you: Work for a bank going through an M&A deal Work in a professional services firm that wants to offer services to support a banking M&A Are a regulator Are curious about how it all works Then this book is for you. This is a simple straightforward handbook of how to manage the M&A integration process written by some who has been responsible for managing the planning and logistics for some of the major banking deals of recent years. It shows you what has to be done before, during and after the change of control of a business...

Few business activities can match Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) in terms of the potential for reward and for danger. A successful merger or acquisition can allow a mid-tier company to leap into the top tier, bringing rich rewards to that company, and its employees and shareholders. The failure of a merger can, on the other hand, have a devastating impact, resulting a loss of credibility, destruction of value and in some cases bringing the parties to ruin. Depending on how you measure it, between 50% and 80% of M&A deals fail to attain their objectives, before or even after the deal is done....