Post-Merger Integration Leadership: Hiring the Right Executives to Capture Deal Value

Post-Merger Integration Leadership: Hiring the Right Executives to Capture Deal Value

Private equity firms spend billions on acquisitions each year, yet Harvard Business Review research shows that 70-90 percent of mergers fail to achieve their projected value, with the breakdown occurring primarily during post-merger integration. For lower middle market PE firms executing buy-and-build strategies, this failure rate represents millions in unrealized returns, according to a recent report from ECA Partners’ Evan Metzger. The culprit…