M&A advisory: Buy and integrate

Our M&A advisory team helps enable strategic growth through better integrated and operationalized mergers and acquisitions, JVs and alliances. In a fast-paced M&A market, we help companies move quickly to refine their growth strategy, perform deal sourcing, conduct diligence and valuation and achieve greater synergies during M&A integration.

What EY M&A advisory services can do for you

Our clients enjoy the personalized attention of a full-service organization with access to broad intellectual capital, extensive relationships and leading‑class solutions to drive growth strategies that fit buy-side M&A needs. 

We are one of the only major professional consulting organizations that offers fully-dedicated multidisciplinary M&A advisory capabilities. From strategy to execution, our services are underpinned by extensive due diligence, commercial, operational, financial and tax experience.

We also combine M&A, functional and sector experience with M&A technology to help companies make better, faster decisions. In particular our technology leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence, robotics and process automation, and data analysis and visualization to help increase confidence in decisions and accelerate synergy capture.

We understand that every type of deal is different, requiring bespoke integration approaches, priorities and operating models. Our M&A advisory team can help you understand what business to buy, how to value it and how to integrate it into your company.

EY-Parthenon Deal Barometer

Find out why our M&A outlook points to a gradual rebound in the deal market in 2024.
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M&A advisory: Buy and integrate team

Elizabeth Kaske

EY Americas Strategy and Transactions Buy & Integrate Leader

Focused on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and large-scale transformations. Mother, golfer, runner. Enjoys yoga, wakesurfing and global travel.

San Francisco, USA

Brian Salsberg

EY Global Buy and Integrate Leader

Passionate acquisition and merger integration leader and aficionado of all things deal-related. Global citizen. World traveler. Husband. Father of two.

New York, USA

Sholape Kolawole

EY-Parthenon Chicago Office Leader

Finance Transact & Transform leader. Chicago office champion. Avid soccer fan. Creative writer. Married with two teenage boys.

Chicago, USA

Ranu Carroll

EY Americas Strategy and Transactions Life Sciences Leader

Life sciences sector leader. Strategy and M&A advisor. Avid traveler. Opera enthusiast. Rugby fan. Proud mom of three small humans.

New York, USA

Khalid Khan

EY Americas Strategy and Transactions AI Leader

Harnesses the power of data and mathematics to drive purpose-led, sustainable transformation for clients. Avid traveler. Proud father.

Chicago, USA

Derron Stark

EY-Parthenon Partner, Strategy & Transactions – Health Sciences & Wellness Supply Chain, Ernst & Young LLP.

Driven to leverage science to help people lead healthier lives. Supply chain strategist. Husband and father. Passionate about soccer and cooking cuisine with international flavor.

Iselin, USA

Elyse Reilly

Partner, Strategy and Transactions, Financial Services Transaction Diligence, Ernst & Young LLP

Results-oriented business advisor focused on driving shareholder value. Collaborator, developer of people, focused on propelling women and proud mother of two.

New York, USA

Our latest thinking

Macro Bites: M&A deal activity in 2024’s nuanced macroeconomic environment

A nuanced macroeconomic environment provides opportunities for increased M&A deal activity in 2024.

31 Jan 2024

Should CEOs double-down on business transformation in the face of uncertainty?

Business transformation is front and center on the 2024 CEO agenda, the latest EY report finds. Read more.

30 Jan 2024 Andrea Guerzoni + 2

Macro Bites: Beating health care industry challenges

Industry leaders need to look to tech solutions, partnerships and M&A to overcome health care industry challenges.

13 Dec 2023

EY M&A sector of the year: Tech leads M&A activity in 2023

Find out the EY M&A sector of the year and which sectors to watch in 2024.

12 Dec 2023 Elizabeth Kaske + 4

The Navigator: perspectives on financial services M&A

Financial institutions are building competitive advantage through M&A. Read on to learn more.

13 Nov 2023 Sid Khosla

CEO Survey: Focus on GenAI strategy to accelerate growth

Our survey finds US CEOs preparing for a new normal of costly capital while M&A intentions remain strong and divestment plans are robust.

30 Oct 2023 EY Americas

Mega mergers can have mega payoffs — with the right approach

Mega mergers can pay off with higher shareholder value if companies take the right approach. Find out more.

26 Jul 2023 Elizabeth Kaske

How can your digital investment strategy reach higher returns?

The 2022 Digital Investment Index reveals that companies struggle with digital strategy and measuring returns on their technology investments. Read more.

05 Apr 2022 Sri Prabhakaran

Case study: How a Nordic SaaS player unlocked potential in a global lockdown

A bold strategy and deep, multi-disciplined M&A experience turned “it can’t be done” into a sale that facilitated outstanding outcomes. Learn more.

19 Apr 2021 Eric Sanschagrin

How the right buyer helped a family grow global plant-based food production

Innovation in plant-based meat could have a major role in promoting healthier food alternatives and sustainable environmental practices.

16 Apr 2021 Rahul Agrawal
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