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Co-ordination - all important![/caption] In large businesses, getting an acquisition from opportunity to signature is one of those few key activities that demands seamless collaboration between Corporate and Business Unit entities. In many cases one group pays for the deal, while the other lives with the results. While this may seem a logical split of roles, it can result in a number of misaligned priorities and other systemic flaws in the pre-close process: Business Units not fully understanding the deal rationale, making it hard for them to truly get behind the delivery of the benefits; Corporate Strategy or M&A groups building synergy models and assumptions insufficiently underpinned by operational realities; lack of accountability between Corporate and BUs over execution, leading to finger-pointing if things go wrong.