Helping banks through the entire merger and acquisition (M&A) life cycle is our team’s full-time job, which means we can offer proprietary strategies to help you with M&A strategy and due diligence through successfully closing the deal and beyond.
Our playbook, proprietary tools, and extensive experience can help you effectively complete the necessary M&A steps for a successful transaction.
From target identification to closing and integration, the M&A journey can be complex and involve numerous stakeholders. Our unified team can guide you through the entire M&A life cycle with focus and efficiency while providing proprietary methods to execute the deal and benchmark your decisions and estimates.
With deep knowledge of the regulatory process and extensive M&A experience, our team of specialized professionals can help you navigate complexities, prepare precise filings, develop robust plans, and run accurate models – all through a single point of contact.
M&A strategy
Our team can help you set your M&A strategy, assess your M&A readiness, and analyze potential candidates.
Due diligence
Due diligence is essential in every transaction – especially with the unique factors of bank M&A. We can work with you to harness data, identify issues and solutions, and help keep your deal on track.
Valuations
We offer a time-tested, robust, and efficient approach and the expertise you need to prepare critical valuations for loans and intangible assets, purchase accounting, and deal modeling.
M&A strategy
Our team can help you set your M&A strategy, assess your M&A readiness, and analyze potential candidates.
Due diligence
Due diligence is essential in every transaction – especially with the unique factors of bank M&A. We can work with you to harness data, identify issues and solutions, and help keep your deal on track.
Valuations
We offer a time-tested, robust, and efficient approach and the expertise you need to prepare critical valuations for loans and intangible assets, purchase accounting, and deal modeling.
Financial modeling and credit analytics
From pro forma financial modeling to current expected credit loss (CECL) impact analysis and credit analytics, our team can help you model the deal’s financial outlook and reveal key insights in the loan portfolio.
Business combination accounting
The earlier you can determine the accounting impacts during a bank acquisition the better – and our experienced team is here to help.
M&A integration
Our team can help you plan for a successful integration, optimize your combined bank’s value, provide integration support and management, align risk and compliance programs, and assist with the transition.
Financial modeling and credit analytics
From pro forma financial modeling to current expected credit loss (CECL) impact analysis and credit analytics, our team can help you model the deal’s financial outlook and reveal key insights in the loan portfolio.
Business combination accounting
The earlier you can determine the accounting impacts during a bank acquisition the better – and our experienced team is here to help.
M&A integration
Our team can help you plan for a successful integration, optimize your combined bank’s value, provide integration support and management, align risk and compliance programs, and assist with the transition.
Our team offers a comprehensive suite of banking M&A services that can meet your needs at any point throughout the M&A life cycle. Our approach can give you and your stakeholders confidence in your process while offering a cohesive view that connects the tasks, processes, and people involved.
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Our top-tier banking professionals have extensive experience and bring proven M&A capabilities, discipline, and speed to get things done well. They make bank M&A their job – not just a periodic exercise. Plus, our integrated collaboration with Cornerstone Advisors enhances our client experience and brings together both organizations’ deeply skilled and specialized capabilities in banking M&A.
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