The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game

Mark Sirower is a US leader in Deloitte’s M&A and Restructuring practice, which he joined in 2008 to launch the M&A Strategy practice. Sirower has advised senior executive teams on hundreds of transactions over the past twenty-five years. Previously, he built the Transaction Services Strategy Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was global leader of the M&A practice at the Boston Consulting Group in New York, where he developed the BCG corporate development framework and innovative approaches to crafting and executing M&A strategy. Before joining BCG, he taught Mergers and Acquisitions at the Wharton School. He is the author of the M&A bestseller, The Synergy Trap.

Jeff Weirens is the Leader of Deloitte’s Global Financial Advisory Business and serves on Deloitte’s Global Executive Committee. For more than twenty-five years, Weirens has advised clients on several of the world’s most iconic acquisitions and divestitures. He has served in multiple leadership roles, including Deloitte Consulting’s Management Committee, the Energy, Resources, and Industrials practice, and the Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring practice. He is a trusted adviser to senior client executive teams and boards of directors, has advised on hundreds of acquisitions, divestitures, and transformations, and is an expert on postmerger integration and divestitures.

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