M&A Science
220 Deals. One Playbook. How to Scale M&A Without Losing Control
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Shawn Rodricks, Head of M&A - Independent Consultant
"I can be the best corp dev individual in the world. I get my integrations wrong, I've lost the transaction." Shawn Rodricks learned that in year one at Amerivet Veterinary Partners, when he rushed integration on a late deal, left the banking with the seller, and the funds became hard to track.
Shawn has closed about 220 acquisitions across Rexall and Amerivet, at times three to five a week. He breaks down the operating model behind that pace: a cross-department playbook that names the task, owner, and timeline for every stage, a closing-week SWAT team for when deals stack up, a probability-weighted pipeline that tells finance when to fund, and a clear line between what must be integrated before close and what can wait.
Shawn's rule is that a playbook has to "live and breathe with every transaction." IVC Evidensia, a veterinary roll-up running repeatable diligence processes and centralized deal tracking in DealRoom, completed 56 deals in a single month. See how they run it: click here