Corporate M&A - Key project management skills?

Dear all,

I am working as a Strategy and M&A manager within a corporate, and is responsible for running a number of various M&A projects primarily. This as you know often involves a large number of stakeholders, and often involves a large project team with several internal as well as external work streams.

Based on your experience, was are the key characteristics of a (successful) M&A project manager? What is critical to success in these often long and complex M&A processes? As a project manager, how do most efficiently ensure commitment from internal functional teams in the due diligence? How do you ensure proper DD reporting when you are working with many different functions (and working styles) within your own company? Etc.

I appreciate that this might not be an easy questions, and that I am in fact asking many different questions, but I am curious to hear some of your experiences / best practices.

Thanks!

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