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M&A Integration & Carve-Out Advisory

We lead the finance, GBS, and IT workstreams that determine whether an acquisition creates value in its first 90 days.

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3
M&A deals executed as IT functional stream lead at Bayer
€10M
Total M&A transaction value integrated on time
3
CGT subsidiary integrations: BlueRock, AskBio, Viralgen
30+ Years
combined M&A integration experience across industries

Overview

About this practice

The value of most acquisitions is determined not in the deal room but in the integration. Finance systems that cannot consolidate. Shared services organisations that serve two masters. IT architectures that resist harmonisation. Compliance frameworks that were never designed to connect. These are the predictable consequences of integrations that were under-resourced, under-experienced, or started too late.

Talvoren Advisory provides integration leadership that starts before close and stays through stabilisation. Peter Gent has led post-merger finance and GBS integrations across Bekaert, Bayer, and NETZSCH — including full operating model redesign following acquisitions. Mikhail Konovalov executed three M&A deals as IT functional stream lead at Bayer, with a total transaction value of €10M, and led the IT integration of three CGT subsidiary acquisitions (BlueRock, AskBio, Viralgen) within agreed timelines and budgets.

We are equally effective on the buy side and the sell side. Our focus is always the same: deliver the financial synergies the deal thesis promised, on time, without a compliance incident.

Key Benefits

What you get

  1. Pre-close integration planning: Day 1 readiness assessment, workstream design, and synergy tracking framework

  2. Finance integration: chart of accounts harmonisation, consolidation architecture, and reporting unification

  3. GBS consolidation: combining shared service organisations, harmonising SLAs, and rationalising vendor contracts

  4. IT integration workstream leadership: systems assessment, architecture harmonisation, and data migration oversight

  5. Carve-out advisory: standalone operating model design, TSA negotiation, and separation execution

  6. Compliance continuity: ensuring no gap in controls or regulatory compliance during the integration period

  7. Synergy tracking: translating deal model assumptions into operational milestones with financial accountability

Who This Is For

Built for
organizations like yours

This practice area is designed for organizations facing the challenges listed here. If your situation matches, we should talk.

  • PE-backed platforms executing bolt-on acquisitions

  • Corporate acquirers integrating pharma or industrials targets

  • Companies preparing a carve-out needing a standalone operating model

  • CFOs needing independent integration oversight and programme leadership

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