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M&A Strategy & Due Diligence
We create a clear M&A blueprint and use advanced techniques - including GenAI - to find and profile potential targets, while helping perform strategic, financial, and cultural diligence.
Integrations
We tailor the integration strategy to achieve value faster and more sustainably with less risk—all while underwriting impact with creative arrangements.
Separations & IPOs
We unlock value from strategic options and portfolio reshaping, separating businesses, and executing capital market transactions and IPOs.
Joint Ventures & Alliances
We shape the partnership strategy, establish governance structures, create cohesive operating models, and conduct continuous monitoring to maximize value creation.
M&A Capability Building
We build distinctive capabilities for businesses across all stages of M&A including running post-mortems, capturing learnings, and building institutional playbooks.
OUR PEOPLE
Jake Henry
Senior PartnerChicago
Leads McKinsey’s global work on mergers, acquisitions, separations, divestitures and JV’s/alliances. Serves leading medical...
Mieke Van Oostende
Senior PartnerBrussels
Serves clients in the financial-services sector, particularly on strategy, organization, and risk management, with a global reputation...
Featured insights
Report
M&A Annual Report: Is the wave finally arriving?
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Powerful forces favor a resurgence in M&A, especially in North America, but dealmakers still have plenty of challenges to stare down.
Article
The importance of cultural integration in M&A: The path to success
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Culture management is a vital aspect of integrations during mergers and acquisitions and, with the right measures, cultural alignment...
Article
When a transaction forges a transformation
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An approach to M&A integrations that looks beyond combinatorial synergies can be the starting point for broader transformation....
Survey
The seven habits of programmatic acquirers
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Our latest research shows that programmatic acquirers continue to create value from this approach to M&A and identifies the...
Article
Signs of optimism in the M&A market
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After a rough first quarter, will skies brighten for global deal activity?
Opportunities
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