Deloitte M&A opportunities / exit opps

Hello all!

As far as I can tell, Deloitte's M&A practice is mostly post-Deal 1. Basically, its more about integrating the companies rather than doing due diligence. I have a few questions about this notion, if someone could answer them.

1) What % of work is due diligence versus post Day1? 2) What is the day in the life of someone who is working on an integration post-acquisition? In other words, what is the day-to-day life of a typical M&A project at Deloitte? 3) What are exit opps like?

Thinking of joining Deloitte's M&A offering portfolio, but am really confused.

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There's a lot more pre-deal work than you would think. Yes, the majority is post-close but the M&A group also churns out tons of ODDs and CDDs. M&A strategy projects do exist but are harder to come by (Bain wins a lot of that work)

Day-to-day depends on where in the lifecycle you are. For due diligences, expect 100-110 hour weeks and working weekends. post-acquisition IMO can be more chill, but depends on the role. the synergy teams burn a little harder than the IMO office on a typical post-deal project.

Exit opps are your typical corp strat / corp dev roles. I also know someone who went to a small PE shop who had worked on some M&A deals with Deloitte

 
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If you're speaking of M&A within the Corp. Fin. groups, you're wrong. They pitch, build decks, conduct valuation work, approach strategics and financial sponsors, handle buy-side approaches as well, privatization of public companies, etc. They also typically run capital raises (but debt and equity).

As for exit opps, seen two analysts move to IB within a year, seen others getting pension fund PE and bank IB interviews without a single struggle.

Post-acquisition is handled by the integration group.

 

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