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Jeff Black is a Partner and leads Mercer’s Global Mergers & Acquisition Advisory Services business. Under Jeff’s leadership, Mercer was named an Innovator in ALM | Law.com’s Compass Pacesetter Research M&A Services 2023 Report, as well as a Pacesetter in 2022. With a focus on human capital’s crucial role in driving revenue synergies and realizing deal value, Jeff leads an award-winning M&A team that supports Corporate and Private Equity clients across the full deal lifecycle.

Through his nearly 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor and work on over 300 transactions, Jeff provides both strategic and financial advice to buyers and sellers on a wide variety of global people risks, including commercial due diligence, organization design and transformation, leadership development, change management, culture risk mitigation, benefits pooling and financing, and salesforce effectiveness. Whether he’s advising on start-ups, IPOs, acquisitions, mergers, Joint Ventures, divestitures or stand ups, Jeff provides guidance and support to clients across all deal phases — from sourcing and diligence to pre-close and post-merger integrations.

Recognized by the Consulting Report as a top M&A consultant and leader, Jeff frequently speaks on M&A people risks, regularly partnering with leading organizations such as the Transaction Advisors Institute and the Conference Board. He has published widely in industry journals and is frequently quoted in media outlets. His thought leadership addresses critical people risks in M&A, including retaining key talent during transactions, mitigating culture risk and executing business transformation through transactions.

With a focus on human capital’s crucial role in driving revenue synergies and realizing deal value, Jeff advises both Corporate and Private Equite clients across the full deal lifecycle. He provides strategic and financial advice to buyers and sellers on various global people topics including commercial due diligence, organization design and transformation, leadership alignment, change management, culture risk mitigation, workforce alignment, benefits pooling and financing, salesforce effectiveness, and HR delivery. Jeff has experience supporting start-ups, IPOs, acquisitions, mergers, Joint Ventures, divestitures or stand ups. All of this work is done across the deal lifecycle—sourcing, diligence, Day 1 planning/execution and post-merger efficiency and integrations. His work spans multiple industries with a specific focus in healthcare and acquisition of start-up organizations.

Mercer’s M&A Advisory Services practice is a preeminent global advisor on people issues in mergers and acquisitions, managing the intersection of business and human capital strategy to enable intended deal value creation. We have advised both corporate and private equity clients around the globe on M&A transactions for more than 70 years. We support approximately 1,400 transactions each year, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs, divestitures and business restructuring.

Approximately two-thirds of the deals we support are multinationals. Our transaction expertise covers the full suite of people and organizational requirements throughout the deal life cycle — from assessment and strategy definition to design and full implementation.

We have approximately 200 dedicated M&A professionals globally, with over 40 located in the US and Canada. Our dedicated M&A team is supported by over 3,000 M&A subject matters experts globally that sit within our Health, Wealth and Career practices. Our capabilities are consistent on a global scale and we would work closely with your team to identify the right team to support your needs. We have been recognized as a top M&A Advisor by various organizations, most recently by The Consulting Report as well as being designated an M&A Innovator by ALM | Law.com.