Mergers Quotes

“When post-M&A integration realities are not holistically planned for pre-M&A integration, the resulting risk is that the markets' initial valuation of the new entity may far exceed the adjusted valuation of the new entity a few years post-integration. And we all know what that means for shareholders.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework

“Merging two companies into one is not just a technical or a legal combination. It's like a sperm and an egg coming together to create a new body. We have to ask ourselves, how does a sperm and an egg become a single cohesive person? And how does that person, with all of its separate parts, exist as and operate as one single cohesive living unit? And we have to ask ourselves, how can we make that happen for this company?”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework