The Agile Gorilla

Rethink M&A. Our fresh thinking is born from challenging everything about how mergers and acquisitions are delivered. The commonly accepted way of doing deals is wrong. Working with us will feel different to anyone else you have worked with before. The Agile Gorilla is a collective of independent professionals helping organisations create value through M&A. There is a lovely apparent contradiction between the headlines in business journals and management consultancies that “most mergers fail” and the annual increase in M&A transactions. The reality is that these are not mergers, and they are not failing. We need to segment different types of deal, they are not one homogenous group that should be analyzed as a whole. We need to factor in reactions of decision makers to their personal incentives. We need to accept that people are not economically rational decision makers. We need to look behind public statements from the organizations involved and look at the reality of their business models. We need to understand that in the field of M&A, there is a panorama of motivations. The language we use to describe things helps shape our understanding. The term Post Merger Integration conveys a misunderstanding of the value, challenge and opportunity. We need a new term.'Value Creation through M&A'.