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Law Management Section Merger Toolkit
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The Law Management Section Merger Toolkit is designed to help firms gain a better understanding of the merger process and provides guidance throughout. The toolkit covers:
- reasons for merger - merger as strategy implementation
- the mechanics of merger - including getting started, identifying the key issues at stake, and undertaking due diligence
- how to manage issues of apparent cultural incompatibility between
- merging firms
- integration and unlocking the benefits of merger.
This practical toolkit contains an extensive pre-merger questionnaire, a suitable confidentiality agreement and short and long form merger checklists on the accompanying CD, enabling you to customise them as needed.
Contents
- 1. Background
- 2. Why merge ? (1) Merger as strategy implementation
- 3. Why merge? (2) The forces driving consolidation in the UK legal services market
- 4. Mergers, strategy and business planning
- 5. Getting started
- 6. Identifying the issues
- 7. Due diligence
- 8. Cultural issues
- 9. What is integration?
- 10. What next?
- 11. Strategies to unlock the merger dividend.
About the Author
Nigel Haddon is chief executive of SAS Daniels LLP, a medium sized law firm in the north west, and itself the product of a merger in 2006. He is also past chair of the Law Society's Law Management Section.Category
Practice management
Published
July 2012
Publisher
Law Society
ISBN
9781907698484
Format
Paperback + CD
120 Pages