Mergers and Acquisitions

When you bring organizations together, there is little time to second-guess.

Mergers and Acquisitions

When you bring organizations together through mergers and acquisitions (M&A), or create new entities through separations and divestitures, there is little time to second-guess. With our cutting-edge technology and experienced professionals around the world, we can help you create a stronger future for your organization. We create sustainable value at every stage of the deal and provide a comprehensive suite of M&A services for each step of your M&A journey​.

Global M&A Advisor by deal activity for 2022

Global M&A Advisor by cross-border deal activity for 2022

M&A Deal of the Year 2020-2022

2022: Deals > $5B | PE Deals > $1B | X-Border Deals > $100M
2022: Information Technology Deals > $100M
2020: Deals $10B to $50B | 2019: Deals $1B to $10B

Large Turnaround of the Year for 2021 & 2022

International Company Turnaround / Transaction of the Year 2021

Leader in Data & Analytics Service Providers

Global Leader in Transactions - Divestitures Consulting

Global Leader in Portfolio & Capital Strategy Consulting

Our global network of M&A professionals can help you unlock value across the deal lifecycle

  1. Stage 1

    Accelerate growth & assess opportunities


    Combining local and global expertise, we build the right team to explore potential growth strategies, assessing how emerging tech can accelerate inorganic and organic growth opportunities.



    Our target screening approach and experience helps identify attractive and plausible acquisition targets, encompassing options to diversify or increase market differentiation.

  2. Stage 2

    Prepare for the transaction. Identify & mitigate transaction & closing risks

    To facilitate our clients ability to make fully informed transaction decisions, we use our extensive deal and industry experience to highlight key issues and navigate blockers in valuations; deal structure; execution efforts and integration or separation planning.

    Throughout the diligence process we impartially interrogate the deal, provide solutions to any risks, and identify and quantify potential upsides. An Executive briefing plan and board paper help ensure senior stakeholders understand the deal rationale and its implications, including closing risks.

    Throughout the diligence process we impartially interrogate the deal, provide solutions to any risks, and identify and quantify potential upsides. An Executive briefing plan and board paper help ensure senior stakeholders understand the deal rationale and its implications, including closing risks.

  3. Stage 3

    Set-up for success from transaction close


    Whether integrating or separating an entity, our team develops a plan to deliver on the anticipated business synergies. This can include running workshops to assess how sales teams, suppliers, employees, systems and processes will integrate; developing a customer retention plan and ensuring all regulatory and compliance obligations are met.



    To unlock the full value of the transaction, we can also create and design talent retention programs, and help manage change and communication initiatives to drive a smooth and successful transaction.

  4. Stage 4

    Evolve your business to realize greater value

    Transform While You Transact. The complex nature of an M&A deal will often prompt our clients to seek a more in-depth and robust understanding of potential disruptors and transformational opportunities to evolve and advance their business.

    This might include assessing avenues for value creation, exploring performance improvements or reviewing readiness for disruptive technologies or events that may impact the future stability and success of the business.

  5. Our Capabilities

    Corporate Finance Advisory

    Providing independent financial, M&A and debt / equity advice whether you are seeking to expand organically or via a strategic acquisition, realize value through the sale of a business, a subsidiary or a shareholding, raise new finance, review debt facilities or improve balance sheet funding efficiencies.
    Learn more >>



    Disruptive Events Advisory

    Deloitte's deep accounting, financial reporting, finance operations, controls, and regulatory experience can help CFOs and their finance teams successfully navigate disruptive events, such as IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, new joint ventures, and business model changes, and exceed stakeholder expectations. Learn more >>


    M&A Strategy & Diligence

    From conceiving strategy to selecting the right partner... From conducting thorough due diligence to closing the deal... From beginning to end, Deloitte addresses your transactions, integration, and separation needs, all with the goal of generating value for your organization. Learn more >>


    M&A Tax & Legal

    Deloitte offers differentiated solutions to help companies identify M&A opportunities, assess risks and exposures, understand the tax synergies that can be captured in transactions, and deploy offensive and defensive M&A strategies to navigate uncertainty and rebuild profitability. Learn more >>


    Turnaround & Restructuring

    Deloitte's Turnaround & Restructuring teams assist companies and stakeholders to address pressures and effect turnarounds, to regain control, manage crisis, improve return to creditors and limit exposure to risk and bad debt through a full suite of services. Learn more >>


    Value Creation Services

    Deloitte Value Creation Services is predicated on the rapid identification, planning, and implementation of prioritized performance improvement initiatives that will improve cash and enhance profits. Learn more >>


    Valuation & Modelling

    For years, leading companies have turned to Deloitte for our deep experience in valuing, modeling, and analyzing business interests and their underlying assets. We provide transformative insights to turn critical and complex issues into opportunities for growth, resilience, and long-term advantage. Learn more >>

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  2. Stage 2
  3. Stage 3
  4. Stage 4
  5. Our Capabilities

Accelerate growth & assess opportunities


Combining local and global expertise, we build the right team to explore potential growth strategies, assessing how emerging tech can accelerate inorganic and organic growth opportunities.



Our target screening approach and experience helps identify attractive and plausible acquisition targets, encompassing options to diversify or increase market differentiation.

Prepare for the transaction. Identify & mitigate transaction & closing risks

To facilitate our clients ability to make fully informed transaction decisions, we use our extensive deal and industry experience to highlight key issues and navigate blockers in valuations; deal structure; execution efforts and integration or separation planning.

Throughout the diligence process we impartially interrogate the deal, provide solutions to any risks, and identify and quantify potential upsides. An Executive briefing plan and board paper help ensure senior stakeholders understand the deal rationale and its implications, including closing risks.

Set-up for success from transaction close


Whether integrating or separating an entity, our team develops a plan to deliver on the anticipated business synergies. This can include running workshops to assess how sales teams, suppliers, employees, systems and processes will integrate; developing a customer retention plan and ensuring all regulatory and compliance obligations are met.



To unlock the full value of the transaction, we can also create and design talent retention programs, and help manage change and communication initiatives to drive a smooth and successful transaction.

Evolve your business to realize greater value

Transform While You Transact. The complex nature of an M&A deal will often prompt our clients to seek a more in-depth and robust understanding of potential disruptors and transformational opportunities to evolve and advance their business.

This might include assessing avenues for value creation, exploring performance improvements or reviewing readiness for disruptive technologies or events that may impact the future stability and success of the business.

Corporate Finance Advisory

Providing independent financial, M&A and debt / equity advice - whether you are seeking to expand organically or via a strategic acquisition, realize value through the sale of a business, a subsidiary or a shareholding, raise new finance, review debt facilities or improve balance sheet funding efficiencies. Learn more >>


Disruptive Events Advisory

Deloitte's deep accounting, financial reporting, finance operations, controls, and regulatory experience can help CFOs and their finance teams successfully navigate disruptive events, such as IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, new joint ventures, and business model changes, and exceed stakeholder expectations. Learn more >>


M&A Strategy & Diligence

From conceiving strategy to selecting the right partner...From conducting thorough due diligence to closing the deal...From beginning to end, Deloitte addresses your transactions, integration, and separation needs, all with the goal of generating value for your organization. Learn more >>


M&A Tax & Legal

Deloitte offers differentiated solutions to help companies identify M&A opportunities, assess risks and exposures, understand the tax synergies that can be captured in transactions, and deploy offensive and defensive M&A strategies to navigate uncertainty and rebuild profitability. Learn more >>


Turnaround & Restructuring

Deloitte's Turnaround & Restructuring teams assist companies and stakeholders to address pressures and effect turnarounds, to regain control, manage crisis, improve return to creditors and limit exposure to risk and bad debt through a full suite of services. Learn more >>


Value Creation Services

Deloitte Value Creation Services is predicated on the rapid identification, planning, and implementation of prioritized performance improvement initiatives that will improve cash and enhance profits. Learn more >>


Valuation & Modelling

For years, leading companies have turned to Deloitte for our deep experience in valuing, modeling, and analyzing business interests and their underlying assets. We provide transformative insights to turn critical and complex issues into opportunities for growth, resilience, and long-term advantage. Learn more >>

M&A. Make history.

The pace of today's M&A activity demands that decision-makers be able to make the right moves confidently and swiftly to capitalize on new opportunities.


Deloitte's member firms understand the challenges on both sides of the transaction and the need for all parties to drive maximum value. Our global network of M&A professionals are forward-looking specialists with unparalleled experience, skills, and deep industry expertise. By combining these capabilities with proprietary tools and analytics, we identify key risks and rewards, so you can confidently navigate M&A complexities.

For sellers, we help you understand the potential risks and rewards of a divestiture. We assess your situation and support your negotiating position to maximize the sale price and execute the deal with minimal disruption to remaining operations.

For buyers, we recognize the need to unlock value at every stage. We work with you to identify potential targets and support an efficient transaction process for the most complex deals. We also help align deals with your strategic business objectives, maintain compliance, and enhance value through integration and potential upside opportunities.

With building value at the core of our focus, we work seamlessly with you across all stages of planning and executing acquisitions and divestitures.

Accelerated and Differentiated Outcomes

iDeal - Make decisions with confidence and conviction

Our advanced analytics capability identifies deep insights in hours Vs weeks, delivering accelerated, game-changing outcomes when it matters most. iDeal combines tools, processes and techniques to produce big-picture insights with a microscopic level of detail. Make decisions with confidence and conviction.

ValueD - Value insights. Informed decisions.

Cut through complexity leveraging our AI and cognitive analytics. With market-based benchmarks and our vast industry knowledge for valuation insights power and inform your decisions. ValueD can bring clarity to complexities and offers new insights for better more strategic decisions using real-time visualization.

M&A Central - Dynamic, real-time executive dashboards

Accelerate planning and realization of project value with holistic, cloud-based M&A project management technology that standardizes program delivery and enables real-time collaboration. M&A Central is our proprietary, market-leading tool to drive execution. Leverage dynamic dashboards, interdependency management, synergy tracking and secured clean rooms.

Get in touch with our cross border experts

Jan Söderholm

Managing Partner, Financial Advisory

Marko Pöllänen

Transaction Service Leader

Henrik Wickström

Corporate Finance Leader

Tapio Koivumäki

Operational M&A Advisory Leader