Key takeaways
Host: Ami Louise Rich, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Presenter: Danielle Feinblum, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
1 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
The impact of corporate culture on M&A deal synergy is often underestimated. How should culture be managed across the deal life cycle? We’ll discuss:
- Recent trends reshaping the role of culture in M&A, including due diligence risk profiling and increased emphasis on action instead of talk
- Nuances of managing culture at each deal stage, including non-negotiables that make each organization unique and ways to facilitate post-deal integration
- The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in corporate culture and how DEI practices can affect deal value
Meet the speakers

Ami Louise Rich
Ami is a principal in the Merger, Acquisition, and Restructuring practice within Deloitte Consulting LLP. She has more than twenty years of professional experience, including significant practice advising and working with senior executives to drive shareholder value through their human capital, across the lifecycle of transactions. She has successfully led efforts in operating model and organization structure design, culture transformation, strategic change, and workforce transition across multiple industries and dozens of deals. Ami has an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BSM from Pepperdine University.
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