Practical M&A Execution and Integration

Dr Michael McGrath is an established city professional, with over 15 years of experience working for some of the world's leading banks. He is currently a Head of Function for ADM Operations at Lloyds Banking Group. He is a former regional Chief Technical Officer at Merrill Lynch and Project Delivery Director at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank. He was a founder of Hibernia Consulting, a project delivery and risk management consulting firm serving major investment banking clients. Michael has spent his professional life implementing complex change, in particular managing Mergers and Acquisitions from the announcement of the deal through to post-merger integration. M&A deals he has worked on include Lloyds TSB Registrars' demerger from Lloyds TSB Group, the Deutsche Bank acquisition of Bankers Trust (then the largest banking acquisition ever made), the Bankers Trust acquisition of NatWest Markets (then the largest banking acquisition in the UK) and IBM's acquisition of Lotus Development. Michael holds an MBA from the Smurfit School of Business; his MBA thesis won the Institute of Accountants in Ireland gold medal for research in 1996. His doctoral research examines risk behaviour in unfamiliar problem domains and he is probably the only person in the United Kingdom to hold a doctorate in banking M&A risk management.