This book shows you how to make the M&A dream an M&A reality. If you: Work for a bank going through an M&A deal Work in a professional services firm that wants to offer services to support a banking M&A Are a regulator Are curious about how it all works Then this book is for you. This is a simple straightforward handbook of how to manage the M&A integration process written by some who has been responsible for managing the planning and logistics for some of the major banking deals of recent years. It shows you what has to be done before, during and after the change of control of a business unit of a whole bank from one owner to another.