05 Nov 2026
M&A Review UK
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M&A
Integration is not value creation: Perhaps M&A has been asking the wrong post-deal question
For decades, post-merger integration has dominated how dealmakers think about the period after signing. Florian Bauer and Alexander Griesmeier argue that integration and value creation are not the same thing – and that M&A may have been asking the wrong post-deal question.