Transformational M&A: The Growth Transformer’s Playbook
The game plan for business growth
In New Zealand and across Asia Pacific, businesses and their leaders are facing unprecedented challenges from a new wave of systemic shifts, including geopolitics, activist investor pressure, increasing tariffs, the energy transition, and regulations.
Faced with such tensions, traditional strategic approaches to business growth that create incremental change may no longer be sufficient. To compete and drive shareholder value, some organisations are adopting an approach that reshapes the business through Transformational M&A. Deloitte’s Asia Pacific Growth Transformers Playbook provides insights into the leading practices of Transformational M&A drawing on a decade of analysis of over 2,000 major deals.
Introduction to Transformational M&A
Companies that make M&A a core strategy consistently outperform, with “growth transformers” delivering over double the average shareholder returns. Growth transformers often initiate transformational M&A either through large-scale “big bang” acquisitions, or through a series of smaller deals, collaborations and partnerships. Every deal fulfils the principal objective of bold, continuous change, and is targeted at delivering the speed of transformation needed.
About the playbook
The Asia Pacific Growth Transformers Playbook reveals that “growth transformers” – leaders focused on Transformational M&A – are redefining how to capture value, seize new markets, and reinvent business models for the changing business and world environment.
Key insights
- Leaders pursuing transformational goals at the core of their M&A achieved shareholder returns more than twice the S&P 1200 average.
- AI and advanced technologies are often now at the heart of deal strategy, with nearly half of CEOs prioritising AI investments not just to improve efficiencies, but to fundamentally transform business models and accelerate growth.
- Businesses focusing on workforce transformation and digital skills report up to 30% higher levels of innovation.
Six leading practices of Transformational M&A
Growth transformers consistently display a set of six leading practices that provide the foundations of superior shareholder returns.
Businesses across many sectors are looking to transform and drive growth and value during a period of substantial systemic and structural shifts. Many high performing leaders are turning to Transformational M&A to help achieve these changes, aiming to create innovative new operational and business models at the scope and pace required.
For more information, read Transformational M&A: Accelerating Growth in Asia Pacific.
