Our Videos

Key learning points: sales, productivity dip, business continuity

November 2021

Key M&A integration learning points from my speech at London Business School

October 2021

What types of M&A and M&A integration are there?

September 2021

Should I standardise or cheery pick from our companies?

August 2021

How far should I integrate the companies I buy?

July 2021

What types of M&A integration are there?

June 2021

Our Books

M&A Integration: How To Do It – Planning and Delivering M&A Integration for Business Success

Our book easily found on Amazon Click Here. Has been approved by CASS (Scott Moeller), Imperial College (Sudi Sudarsanam), Loyola & South Carolina (Darla Moore) business schools and put onto their reading list. The first chapter is given to students at London Business School, Insead, Vlerick, Fisher, Indiana (Kelly), and Cornell. Senior business executives have also given great feedback, and people doing their first deal using it as a the M&A bible.  Click here to download the first chapter of the book.

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How to succeed in a merger or acquisition

If your in a company that has been acquired or are merging with another company, this is the book for you.  Click here to buy it on Amazon or call us if you want 500 copies for your merger, one for each person.

Tips and advice on how to do well when going through a merger or acquisition.  As a follow-up to his popular book M&A Integration: How to do it, author Danny A.Davis given useful well thought through knowledge around the M&A process, what will happen and how to, personally, do well during the deal.  People often worry about their jobs, position, power budgets during M&A, this is a simple guide to doing well.

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Our Publications

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M&A Integration – Plan for Success – Danny A. Davis

Henley Business School

This point of view from Danny A Davis, published by Henley Business School, links the deal strategy through to the integration, following up the planning, evaluation and delivery phases of the M&A integration process. It provides a brief checklist and tells readers what to expect in their deal.

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Many Paths: alternative integration strategies and the drivers that make them work – Danny A.Davis

Henley Business School

This point of view from Danny A Davis, published by Henley Business School, discussed different type of deals, their strategy and the integration strategy.  Following how to make each integration strategy work.

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How to Restructure the Finance Function

Finance Director Europe Magazine

In this article, Danny A Davis and Stephen Dawes look at how to manage the Finance function during and after an integration. They advise the FD to start with the basics, gain control of the cash and bank accounts, then move on to the information and reporting. After that the FD can start to plan the future operating model, which needs careful planning, especially if they are delivering complex deals across businesses and countries.

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Role of HR in M&A Integration

Developing HR Strategy magazine

Danny A Davis and Sven Ringling write about both the contributions and dangers of the HR aspects of integrations. They argue that the “soft” factors such as culture and communication can erode the value of a deal, and provide advice on the prioritisation of HR activities following the announcement of an acquisition.

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Shaping the Future Business

Finance Director Europe Magazine

The FD is a critical player in any M&A project, from the initial investment stage right through the integration process. Danny A Davis and Stephen Dawes look at how the FD helps to shape the strategy for the future business during the integration process.

M&A Integration: Take the Long View

CIMA Excellence for Leadership magazine
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

(CIMA) interviewed Danny A Davis and his views on M&A and integration success factors. Danny’s overarching recommendation is that planning integrations early will lead to greater levels of integration and more successful delivery of predicted synergies.

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Non-Profit Mergers Integration

The National Charity for Trustee magazine

Are mergers in the Charity / Not-for-profit sector any different to those taking place in companies? The fundamental answer, no, hides a multitude of complexity. Using his recent experience on the Board of a merging charity, Danny A Davis provides some advice to trustees.

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Branding in M&A

The Journal of Brand Management

This academics research carried out by Professor Deli Yang and Danny A.Davis looks into the various options on strategic branding within M&A.

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IT M&A Integration Part 1

British Computer Society magazine

IT can be one of the last to be told about a prospective deal on the table, but needs to be one of the first to have an integration plan. In the first of a series of articles for the BCS, Danny A Davis looks at the preparation required within IT in the run up to Day 1.

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IT M&A Integration Part 2

British Computer Society magazine

In the second article for the BCS, Danny A Davis writes about the readiness of IT to start integration. Do you have the right assessment tools? What is the state of IT within the company you have just bought? We will need to understand our company and then fully understand the systems, data and other issues around IT in the company we have just purchased. Only then can we plan and move forward.

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How should we best integrate new and diverse parts of the business? 
Article published in editions Financial, where Danny A.Davis discusses integration

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NHS Improvement web site: How to improve mergers
Danny A.Davis’s work has been referenced 31 times in the CASS Business School and NHS Improvement paper, explaining how to improve mergers in the NHS.

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Sales Force Integration Danny A. Davis
Danny is interviewed on the integration of the sales force and creates the important discussion around customer, customer management and increasing revenue from the deal.

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Post-Merger Integration Articles written for Intralinks
Danny A.Davis’s wrote three M&A integration articles for Intralinks

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Business and Economy interview
Business & Economy interview Danny A.Davis on the state of M&A.

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M&A Integration Checklist or M&A Integration Detailed Checklist
A high level check list with all the large chunks of work you need to take a look at, also a more detailed checklist taking a deeper dive.

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AxialMarket interviews Danny A.Davis on the important steps in M&A integration Park 1
To help us understand how to avoid failed integrations, we spoke with Danny A. Davis, one of the most respected integration specialists in the Europe. Davis is the founder of DD Consulting and recent author of M&A Integration – How to do it from Wiley.

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AxialMarket interviews Danny A.Davis on the important steps in M&A integration Park 2
To help us understand how to avoid failed integrations, we spoke with Danny A. Davis, one of the most respected integration specialists in the Europe. Davis is the founder of DD Consulting and recent author of M&A Integration – How to do it from Wiley.

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DD Consulting’s round table on M&A integration playbooks /methodology
A round table report from a DD Consulting event on M&A Integration Playbooks, containing thoughts from the participants and pages from the DD Consulting Methodology

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Business Reporter interviews Danny A.Davis
Danny A Davis is interviewed by Joanne Frearson for Business Reporter.  M&A integration on a large deal.

M&A Integration Killer Insights
All the thing you need to know when it comes to delivering your merger.  These are also all covered in Danny A.Davis’s Training.

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M&A: The Reasons for Change

Twenty:10 – Enhance your IT strategy

In this annual British Computer Society book of the best articles of the year, Danny A Davis presents a discussion about the opportunity for change brought about by a large M&A deal, leading very rapidly to a pressure to change, given the rapid need for data and information gathering, to enable business decision making and the start of the integration process.

Knowledge Articles

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The key M&A integration questions you should ask yourself

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M&A Integration Killer Insights

Additional Videos

How would my board want to track our M&A integration

May 2021

Misinformation and misunderstanding in M&A integration

April 2021

Day 1: the big question

March 2021

How do it track my M&A integration budgets?

February 2021

Are you ready for M&A integration?

January 2021

Why do we need an M&A integration plan?

December 2020