Tom Fawkes and Brian Jackiw addressed the impacts on credit departments resulting from mergers and acquisitions and other transactions at the National Association of Credit Management (NACM) Connect 2022 Annual Meeting, held on April 12 in St. Louis, Missouri, and on April 14 in Kansas City, Kansas. Tom and Brian discussed topics including harmonizing contracts and other documents, ensuring that credit protections are preserved and maintained post-combination, preserving culture in a credit department that has absorbed another credit department, and using a merger as an opportunity to improve the credit function.