How we can help
M&A Strategy & Due Diligence
We create a clear M&A blueprint and use advanced techniques - including GenAI - to find and profile potential targets, while helping perform strategic, financial, and cultural diligence.
Integrations
We tailor the integration strategy to achieve value faster and more sustainably with less risk—all while underwriting impact with creative arrangements.
Separations & IPOs
We unlock value from strategic options and portfolio reshaping, separating businesses, and executing capital market transactions and IPOs.
Joint Ventures & Alliances
We shape the partnership strategy, establish governance structures, create cohesive operating models, and conduct continuous monitoring to maximize value creation.
M&A Capability Building
We build distinctive capabilities for businesses across all stages of M&A including running post-mortems, capturing learnings, and building institutional playbooks.
Our Tools
Dealscan.AI
McKinsey’s proactive deal-sourcing capability utilizing the latest in advanced analytics and gen AI to accelerate target company identification and assessment
myIMO
McKinsey’s cloud-based M&A program management software automates and enhances key integration and separation processes to provide best-practice workflows, prepopulated templates, and expert guidance to accelerate value capture
OrgLab for M&A
Our solution offers analysis, insights, and a collaborative digital platform to design and optimize organizational structures by providing visibility, cost savings, and strategic alignment for M&A leaders
McKinsey Value Intelligence (MVI)
A web-based program that allows clients to assess their financial strength based on key indicators and provides executives with next steps to improve performance and capture value
Culture Compatibility (OHI, SORT)
These M&A tools assess culture and how work gets done in each organization. They provide data-driven insights and recommendations for cultural integration for Day 1 and long-term organizational health.
OUR PEOPLE
Jake Henry
Senior PartnerChicago
Leads McKinsey’s global work on mergers, acquisitions, separations, divestitures and JV’s/alliances. Serves leading medical...
Mieke Van Oostende
Senior PartnerBrussels
Serves clients in the financial-services sector, particularly on strategy, organization, and risk management, with a global reputation...
Featured insights
Report
M&A Annual Report: Is the wave finally arriving?
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Powerful forces favor a resurgence in M&A, especially in North America, but dealmakers still have plenty of challenges to stare down.
Article
Uncertainty in M&A: Postcards from the new normal
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Unprecedented shocks are affecting M&A activity and dealmaker behavior. Different analyses help bring uncertainty into focus—and...
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CEOs in M&A: Five actions only the chief executive can take
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McKinsey research and interviews with global leaders reveal the activities and discussions that CEOs should be directly involved...
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Gen AI: Opportunities in M&A
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Generative AI is already making its way into the day-to-day world of M&A, and more use cases are emerging. How should companies...
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The portfolio management imperative and its M&A implications
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Several trends are creating a new imperative for strong portfolio management of businesses. Companies need six capabilities to...
Opportunities
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