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Mergers & Acquisitions: Value is hiding in every corner of complex deals

Make the most of M&A opportunities with data-driven, AI-enabled insights that drive faster outcomes.
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KPMG 2026 M&A Deal Market Study

M&A survey reveals strong dealmaker optimism, with distinct strategies for corporate and private equity firms in 2026.

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How to be successful in complex M&A

A relentless focus on speed to value and precise execution will help companies achieve superior outcomes.

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What's at stake

Disruption, risk, complexity…and opportunity

Dealmakers continue to face challenges with their ability to efficiently execute M&A transactions in a complex global environment that includes tariff uncertainties and political volatility. To be a winner in this challenging environment, you need to capitalize on opportunities that enhance value across every step of every deal cycle, from strategy to due diligence, integration, separation, and beyond. And to do that, you need faster insights, more innovative strategies, and a deeper understanding of what’s happening in your industry. Capitalize on a powerful combination of industry and functional expertise and AI-enabled solutions to help you win the right deals and achieve long-term value.

M&A Trends & Reports

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M&A Deal Market Study

M&A Deal Market Study

2026 M&A Deal Market Study

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Healthcare and Life Sciences

Healthcare and Life Sciences

2026 Healthcare & Life Sciences Investment Outlook

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PURPOSE-BUILT FOR M&A

Orchestrating for value

At KPMG LLP (KPMG), our tech-enabled deal teams are purpose-built for the seamless orchestration of value. Our deal architect model provides you with a single point of accountability, synthesizing insights, and mobilizing the breadth and depth of our functional and industry experience. This keeps all teams focused on the value drivers underpinning your investment thesis, helping to reduce value leakage, accelerating value creation, and creating continuity from pre-deal to post-deal phases.

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 Extracting Insights from Visual Content Files at Deal Speed

Get the insights you need to drive the deal you want. Discover how KPMG Deal Advisory and Strategy's data-extraction technology interprets images and uncovers insights from complex visualization files to empower dealmakers to address critical questions. Make your next move with confidence.

Driving deal and transformation success with powerful technology

Our skilled team and powerful technology can help you close deals, realize value, and deliver transformative outcomes.

Navigating Complex M&A

How to win in the age of the complex deal

Report: From digital to intelligent close

Deals and deal making have become more complex. Increasingly, deals are aimed at ambitious strategic goals–transforming operating models or acquiring digital capabilities such as AI – that take companies to a new frontier.

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Insights on transactions

Our significant investment in innovation, and active engagement with dealmakers across industries, give us a thorough understanding of emerging trends, burgeoning issues, and innovative ideas, all of which can provide you with the value-driving insights you need to create long-term value for your enterprise.

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How M&A leaders like you are finding success

Real-world examples of how we helped organizations achieve their goals.

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Inside the $6.1B Celtics deal: The playbook for high-value sports ownership

The behind‑the‑scenes strategy that powered one of sports’ biggest acquisitions

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How our client turned contract complexity into a fast path to deal value
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How our client turned contract complexity into a fast path to deal value

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A winning rebound for a leading fitness company

How KPMG helped a fitness leader regain its financial strength

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Powering through a historic audit with AI

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HP transforms complex M&A with data, analytics, and AI

Dynamic new suite of tools helps empower client to accelerate complex transactions and optimize value

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27 acquisitions. 15 months. One mission.

KPMG helped a provider of home and community-based health care expand and enhance services in challenging times.

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Accelerate your transformation with M&A

Industrial continues to court digital upstarts to help reinvent products and services. But keep an eye on these potential hazards.

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Read about how we help clients enhance their customer experience, improve business performance, and drive new revenue streams—then let us do the same for you. ​

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KPMG Deal Advisory and Strategy

KPMG Deal Advisory and Strategy teams and technology can help drive value on your next deal and throughout your transformation journey so you can move strategically and with agility at speed.

OUR M&A CAPABILITIES
Drive value for your organization, deal by deal
Learn more about our tailored approach to each stage of the deal lifecycle, focused on identifying, protecting, and creating value for our clients.
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Kinergy – Part of the KPMG Intelligence Platform

Technology and expertise transforming M&A and financial reporting
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Acquisitions

Is your acquisition strategy generating the organizational value you deserve?
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Divestitures

Are you ready to get the value you deserve from your divestiture?
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Portfolio Strategy

KPMG Active Portfolio Management helps leaders create value by allocating the company’s scarcest resources with confidence.
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Elevate your business by defining and delivering rapid EBITDA improvement using a data-driven approach to identifying, quantifying and implementing opportunities.

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KPMG Intelligence Platform

The KPMG Intelligence Platform enables better decision making and helps create long-term value with deep, rapid insights through AI-enabled, advanced data and analytics.

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Integration

Integration planning often focuses on what is actually the tip of the iceberg, but numerous threats to value creation lurk below the water line.
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Turnaround and Restructuring Advisory

We know the challenges of turnaround and restructuring—and the array of alternatives that can lead to restored stability and growth.
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Distressed deal support services

We aim to maximize value by assessing the risks and opportunities with a divestiture or acquisition of a distressed.
    Awards and Recognition

    KPMG named as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms in 2025 by Forbes

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    See how other dealmakers are winning the right deals, delivering faster outcomes, and creating more long-term value for their stakeholders with KPMG at their side.

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    Charting the M&A Tax future

    Strategies for 2026 compliance and provision planning

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    KPMG 2026 M&A Deal Market Study

    M&A survey reveals strong dealmaker optimism, with distinct strategies for corporate and private equity firms in 2026.

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    February 3, 2026 | Hot topics in corporate and partnership distressed debt restructuring

    This webcast addresses critical tax strategies for companies restructuring distressed debt in volatile markets. KPMG's M&A Tax practice and Washington National Tax office will cover structuring debt modifications as pro rata prepayments, transitioning partner interests into corporate blockers, and utilizing check-the-box elections for insolvent partnerships.

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    Cyber risk management in manufacturing M&A

    Industrial manufacturers are safeguarding tech acquisitions by managing cybersecurity risks in complex digital ecosystems.

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    US Quarterly Deals Snapshot

    A preliminary look at the fourth quarter deal data.

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    A primer on infrastructure M&A and related US tax considerations

    As the requirements for U.S. infrastructure investment continue to grow in the coming years, many investors are considering investing in this space. This report dives into the key related tax considerations for those transacting in this space.

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    The M&A Dance: Orchestrating synergies and value creation in public company acquisitions

    A decade of data driven insights into the choreography of successful M&A

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    Our team

    Experience wins the deal.

    Each member of our deal team brings extensive industry experience and functional depth, working together to help you win the right deals, divest successfully and create long-term value.

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    Dean Bell
    US Deal Advisory & Strategy Leader and Lead Board Director, KPMG US
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    Cathy Bedrick
    US Deal Advisory & Strategy Transactions Leader, KPMG US
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    Principal, US Strategy Leader, KPMG US
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    Steve Sapletal

    Principal, US Strategy Leader, KPMG US

    Steve is the Strategy Leader for US Deal Advisory & Strategy. In this role, he is responsible for our go-to-market programs, our people, advancement in our tools and technology, client delivery and innovation across all sectors.

    Steve previously led Deal Advisory & Strategy’s Transaction Strategy practice, healthcare and life sciences strategy practice and Global I&S network. He is a seasoned leader and engagement partner with more than 30 years of experience leading complex M&A transactions, corporate strategy and operations consulting.

    Steve continues to lead engagement teams through all aspects of the M&A lifecycle from portfolio rationalization to synergy identification, leading to day 1 readiness and post-close value creation. In his career, he has been involved in over 500 deals.
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    Andrew Getz
    Go-To-Market Enablement Leader, Deal Advisory and Strategy, KPMG US
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    Cathy Bedrick
    US Deal Advisory & Strategy Transactions Leader, KPMG US
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    Steve Sapletal
    Principal, US Strategy Leader, KPMG US
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    Steve Sapletal

    Principal, US Strategy Leader, KPMG US

    Steve is the Strategy Leader for US Deal Advisory & Strategy. In this role, he is responsible for our go-to-market programs, our people, advancement in our tools and technology, client delivery and innovation across all sectors.

    Steve previously led Deal Advisory & Strategy’s Transaction Strategy practice, healthcare and life sciences strategy practice and Global I&S network. He is a seasoned leader and engagement partner with more than 30 years of experience leading complex M&A transactions, corporate strategy and operations consulting.

    Steve continues to lead engagement teams through all aspects of the M&A lifecycle from portfolio rationalization to synergy identification, leading to day 1 readiness and post-close value creation. In his career, he has been involved in over 500 deals.
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    Andrew Getz
    Go-To-Market Enablement Leader, Deal Advisory and Strategy, KPMG US
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