SINGAPORE (Feb 5): Companies in Singapore risk jeopardising the value of their merger and acquisition (M&A) deals by underinvesting in post-merger integration, according to EY.  

In a press release on Monday, the multinational professional services firm underscores the importance of mastering the “art and science of merger integration” as companies in Singapore get more acquisitive.

“Our quantitative analysis of hundreds of deals across many years shows overwhelmingly that most firms are destroying shareholder value due to the lack of integration. This holds true for large firms, as well as smaller firms with market capitalisation of less than $150 million,” says Karambir Anand, Partner and EY Asean Leader, Strategy and Transformation at Ernst & Young Solutions LLP.

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