Private Equity and Infrastructure
The value in an acquisition is realised or lost in the integration. A well planned integration protects the business, captures the synergies the deal was built on and settles people quickly. A poorly planned one destroys value, distracts the business and drags on for years. We plan and deliver.
PEF Consulting Partners leads post acquisition integration as a delivery programme, drawing on the separation of National Grid and NESO and merger and acquisition leadership at Smart Choice Metering. The deal creates the value on paper; the first hundred days decide whether you keep it.
A clear integration strategy and plan before completion where possible, covering what integrates, what stays separate, in what order and to what timetable. The decisions that shape everything else, made deliberately rather than by default.
The early period sets the tone and captures the quick value. We plan it properly: what happens, who owns it, what gets communicated and to whom, so the crucial first months are executed rather than improvised.
Bringing together the systems and processes of two organisations is where integration gets hard and where our systems and transformation background matters. Finance, operational and reporting systems, integrated in a sequence that manages risk.
Structure, roles and the human side of bringing two organisations together, handled with care because integrations succeed or fail on whether people stay and engage. See people and change.
Getting to a single, trusted view of the combined business quickly, so the investor and management can see what they now own.
The integrations that go well are almost always the ones planned before completion. The ones that struggle are the ones where planning started the day after, by which point the first hundred days are being improvised and value is already leaking.
As early as confidentiality allows, ideally before completion, so the first hundred days are ready to execute on day one.
Both. We can plan it, deliver it, or strengthen the team delivering it.
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We bring senior people who have delivered exactly this at scale. Honest advice, and accountability for the outcome.