M&A Assistance / Integration

Mergers and acquisitions are a strategic tool common in many organizations as an integral component of their growth strategy.  M&A’s are employed to gain access to untapped markets or to gain competitive scale in a timely and economically efficient manner.  Typically these transactions are complex evolutions involving many stakeholders and are executed in a dynamic fashion, which in turn creates a significant amount of financial, strategic, and operational risk.  Cornerstone can provide IT expertise throughout the merger and acquisition lifecycle to maximize the value of the transaction, enhance efficiency and throughput and reduce overall business continuity risk.

Cornerstone consultants are experienced on both sides of the transaction and can assume a lead or supporting role to

• Conduct due-diligence of IT prior to merger
• Translate business objectives of merger into IT imperatives
• Evaluate the IT environment of both companies to
  • Develop the future architecture of the integrated entity
  • Define the approach for integrating vital company intelligence and databases
  • Identify opportunities for consolidation, such as applications, platforms, data centers, vendors etc.
  • Restructure legal contracts/ arrangements
• Define the IT organization, processes and roles of the integrated entity
• Identify risks during the integration process and develop mitigation plan
• Prepare a detailed integration roadmap with milestones

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