HR transactions can help you ensure the success of a merger or acquisition by identifying and addressing the associated people issues. We can provide advice at all stages from due diligence and deal negotiation through to post-deal implementation.

Potential issues

• A need to identify and address people issues that challenge the viability of a deal and/or impact on its price
• Ensuring that your management team can execute a deal, deliver the expected benefits - and that they are appropriately incentivised
• Engagement with your workforce  to ensure that your people understand what is expected of them and how they will be rewarded
• Understanding the immediate and future impact on your finances of commitments you have made, such as incentives, pensions, equity arrangements and other such benefits
• A requirement to measure, monitor and report on business-critical aspects of your peoples' performance, ensuring that you meet the business goals of a transaction or restructuring

How we can support you

We can increase the effectiveness of your HR function through providing the following services:

• pricing transactions appropriately by quantifying issues around people and benefit programmes
• identification and retention of people critical to the success of your transaction
• identification and incorporation of significant liabilities and employment obligations, both current and future, relating to pensions, share schemes, change of control and severance promises
• advice on workforce restructuring issues
• engagement strategies to help your staff and maximise your ability to maintain 'business as usual' during a period of change.
• advice on contracts and reward structures

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