Closing the deal is just the beginning. Many acquisitions fail to meet pre-deal expectations, and the real challenge for any company acquiring a business is to ensure that the acquisition delivers the value that motivated the decision to do the deal in the first place. Bringing together businesses with different trading relationships, histories and cultures inevitably poses substantial challenges, and where the businesses of the acquirer and target are multinational, the scale and number of those challenges multiply.
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Closing the deal is just the beginning. Many acquisitions fail to meet pre-deal expectations, and the real challenge for any company acquiring a business is to ensure that the acquisition delivers the value that motivated the decision to do the deal in the first place. Bringing together businesses with different trading relationships, histories and cultures inevitably poses substantial challenges, and where the businesses of the acquirer and target are multinational, the scale and number of those challenges multiply.