Mergers and acquisitions are among the most complex and high-stakes moments in an organization’s lifecycle. While financial and legal diligence are critical, many deals struggle after closing due to unclear processes, misaligned operating models, and insufficient attention to people and change.
SVA’s Mergers & Acquisitions offering helps organizations — whether acquiring or being acquired — navigate the full M&A journey with structure, transparency, and care. We support you in documenting processes, aligning operating models, and guiding people through change so the transaction delivers on its intended value.
Our approach ensures integration is not only efficient, but humane, helping employees feel informed, supported, and part of the future being built.
Here’s how you’ll benefit from our approach
Reduce disruption during and after the transaction
Document and align critical processes early
Support people through uncertainty and change
Accelerate integration and value realization
Protect culture while enabling transformation
OUR APPROACH
Integrate with intention
We assess both organizations’ current-state processes, operating models, systems, and cultures to understand similarities, differences, risks, and integration readiness. This includes evaluating change impact and stakeholder concerns.
We define the future-state integration approach by clarifying operating model decisions, process alignment, governance, and communication strategy. This creates a shared vision for how the combined organization will function.
We support integration execution through program management, change management, and performance tracking, which ensures processes are adopted, people are supported, and integration momentum is sustained.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. We support organizations before, during, and after the transaction, from readiness and planning through post-close integration.
We believe speed and care are not mutually exclusive. Clear communication, documented processes, and thoughtful change management enable both.
Both. Successful M&A requires operational clarity and human-centered change. We intentionally address both dimensions together.
M&A work often integrates Strategic Alignment, Operating Model Design, Systems & Data Strategy, Program Management, and Change Management.
Yes. Many deals lose value due to integration challenges. Our approach is designed to protect — and accelerate — value realization.
