M&A Blog and News
August 29, 2017
Successful Acquirers Consistently Include HR on the M&A Deal Team
By Kelly Karger, Senior Mergers & Acquisitions and Retirement Consultant, Willis Towers Watson, a Partner of the M&A Leadership Council
What are the leading causes of M&A deal failures? Research over the past years has consistently highlighted the role of people issues (from talent retention to organizational culture) in M&A deal value erosion.
August 29, 2017
Introductory Seminar Addresses AI-Related Worker Dislocation and Corporate Upheaval
Submitted by Capital Expert Services
Smart automation is rapidly changing the way we do business and having a disruptive socioeconomic impact. The most sophisticated forms of automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems (AS, also called robotics), are now able to do what was considered science fiction only a few years ago.
August 28, 2017
A Step that Tells the Financial "Story" of a Business
By Tom Jones, Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, BDO USA LLP, a Partner of the M&A Leadership Council
There are clear benefits to performing sell-side due diligence in connection with the sale of a business. More sellers are investing in sell-side financial due diligence as a key component of a well-run sales process which, for many reasons, there is no substitute for when it comes to selling a business.
August 25, 2017
Technology Unlocks New Possibilities
By Kalle Kilpi of Midaxo, a partner of the M&A Leadership Council
It’s easy to understand how digitalization disrupts industries like retail shops in a game-changing way.It’s harder to understand how digitalization provides a game-changing disruption to knowledge work, such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Sure, many meetings are replaced by collaborative tools and Excel spreadsheets are replaced with online project management trackers, but that is not yet real, game-changing disruption enabled by digitalization.
August 25, 2017
Highlights include return of super campaigns
Submitted by Acuris, a Partner of the M&A Leadership Council
Activistmonitor, an Acuris comprehensive shareholder activist platform that covers shareholder activist data and intelligence, including 13F filing analysis, has released its findings for the first half (H1) of 2017 for shareholder activism in North America
August 23, 2017
Four Reasons to Give Them a Seat
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council
As M&A professionals, we’re all familiar with the statistics about deal failure rates. And at the root of these failed deals, you’ll often find people and culture issues that could have been anticipated and addressed if HR leaders had been included on the deal team. The best serial acquirers have learned (sometimes the hard way) that it’s important to make HR a part of an interdisciplinary deal team.
August 2, 2017
A Modern Model of Competencies and Responsibilities
By Stephanie Snyder, Senior Partner at M&A Partners
That’s a question we get from a lot of organizations which are attempting to improve their M&A capabilities and develop their internal M&A resources. First, let’s talk about the differences between M&A Program Management and M&A Project Management. While both are essential to integration success, the roles and responsibilities of classic Program Managers and Project Managers are distinct.
July 24, 2017
Chairman's Message
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council
As it is with M&A Integration, effective due diligence is both a science and an art form in today’s challenging business climate. The science of M&A due diligence has created a substantial body of knowledge around the practices of financial due diligence (income statements, balance sheets, working capital ...