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Pre-divestiture restructuring and post-acquisition integration
Vereinigte Staaten | Publikation | Oktober 2024
Strategic M&A and corporate carve-outs, spin-offs and business divestitures are expected to continue surging as businesses look for value and flexibility.
In most cases, companies need to prepare for these transformational events by reorganizing their corporate and business operations and relationships to effectively carve out and divest the business units, operations and supporting contractual arrangements. Similarly, for private equity funds or strategic acquirers, the post-transaction integration of these business units is imperative to realize and preserve the value and benefit of the transaction.
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