The Agile Gorilla is a collective of independent M&A practitioners. Members do not take on client engagements through the collective, each operates independently through their own firms and intermediary partnerships.

The collective exists to share thinking, challenge orthodoxy, and publish. Our view: the commonly accepted framework for mergers and acquisitions is wrong; and the industry's own data supports that conclusion.

We publish via M&A Unchallenged on Substack.

The reality is that these are not mergers, and they are not failing. We need to segment different types of deal, they are not one homogenous group that should be analyzed as a whole. We need to factor in reactions of decision makers to their personal incentives. We need to accept that people are not economically rational decision makers. We need to look behind public statements from the organizations involved and look at the reality of their business models. We need to understand that in the field of M&A, there is a panorama of motivations. The language we use to describe things helps shape our understanding. The term Post Merger Integration conveys a misunderstanding of the value, challenge and opportunity. We need a new term... 'Value Creation through M&A'.

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