M&A and Acquisition IT Integration
Tenant consolidation, identity unification and licensing cleanup on the deal's timeline, for VC and PE-backed and growth-stage companies.
The Problem
The Deal Closes Before IT Is Ready
Diligence focuses on financials and contracts. IT integration usually becomes urgent the week the deal signs, when two companies suddenly need shared email, shared files, shared identity and a single answer for security questions.
Meanwhile the acquired company's environment is often undocumented, its admin credentials sit with a departing employee or a former provider, and its licensing renews on a date nobody tracked.
Integration deadlines are rarely negotiable, because they are tied to close conditions, transition services agreements, rebranding dates or investor reporting.
Tenant Consolidation
Two Microsoft or Google Tenants Into One
We plan and execute tenant-to-tenant migrations across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace: mailboxes, shared mailboxes and distribution groups, OneDrive and SharePoint or Drive content, Teams and shared drives, and calendar and contact data.
Domain and email routing are cut over in stages with coexistence in place, so cross-company mail flow and free/busy lookups work during the transition rather than after it.
Where full consolidation is not appropriate immediately, we implement a coexistence model, unified global address list and shared collaboration, and sequence the full merge for a later window.
Identity and Devices
One Directory, One Device Standard
Identity is the hard part. We consolidate onto a single identity provider, reconcile duplicate accounts, enforce a common MFA and conditional access baseline, and map group and role structures across both organizations.
Device management is unified into a single MDM or endpoint management platform with a common security baseline, disk encryption, patch policy and endpoint protection standard, migrating enrolled devices without reimaging where possible.
Offboarding from the seller's systems and the transition services agreement is handled explicitly, including revoking the former provider's access and rotating every inherited credential.
Licensing and Cost
Aligning Contracts, Licensing and Spend
We inventory both sides' licensing and SaaS contracts, eliminate duplicate tooling, right-size license tiers to actual usage, and align renewal dates so future negotiations happen once rather than continuously.
The result is a consolidated view of IT spend per employee that you can put in front of a board or sponsor, with identified savings and the cost of the remaining integration work.
We also flag compliance obligations that carry over with the acquisition, such as HIPAA Business Associate Agreements, customer security commitments, data residency terms and existing SOC 2 reports, and map them to deal deadlines.
Who It Is For
Sponsor-Backed and Growth-Stage Acquirers
This service is built for VC and PE-backed companies executing add-on acquisitions, and for growth-stage companies making their first acquisition without an internal IT organization to absorb it.
We work to the deal calendar and report progress in the format sponsors expect: workstream owners, milestones, dependencies and risks.
For acquirers doing this repeatedly, we build a reusable integration playbook so the second and third acquisitions are materially faster than the first.
Related Services
Please note: separate, opt-in engagement
Any security or compliance components of an M&A engagement, such as penetration testing, MDR deployment or SOC 2 and HIPAA readiness work, are scoped, quoted and agreed to separately. They are not included as part of an existing managed IT support or cybersecurity plan unless they have been specifically added to your service agreement.