What You Need to Know About the "Home Base" for All Your Integration Activities
M&A Leadership Council
Establishing an IMO plan for the purposes of managing integration is highly recommended, as it provides a “home base” for all integration activities and can be set up as a unique cost center to capture integration related expenses.
Hero Driven M&A vs. Well-Performed M&A
by Jack Prouty, President of M&A Leadership Council
In our Art of M&ASM training programs, the number one challenge listed by attendees is securing resources for the M&A effort. Specifically, there are not enough of them; they are untrained or unqualified; or they lack dedicated staff because MA&D is treated as a part-time job in addition to their normal job. Why does this continue to be such a major issue?
What Has Changed and How to Improve Deal Values in Domestic Corporate Transactions
By Michael Williams with BDO, a partner of the M&A Leadership Council
Dealmakers are living in a brave new world of tax rules now. Many describe the recent federal income tax legislation as historic—a once-in-a-generation event—but it would also be accurate to describe it as complex, with far-reaching strategic implications for organizations that transcend the tax function.
Even if the near-term changes will be relatively minor, your message needs to be, "There will be change within both organizations. We will effectively communicate changes and be smart about it, etc." Effective mergers and acquisitions are all about managing people through the change process.
Chairman's Message, September 2015
by Jim Jeffries, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council
The deal is not complete at close. It may not even be complete at the end of integration. To fully capture the value of the deal means going beyond integration to optimization and/or transformation. How well do you know the stages that occur in the process of carrying out a merger or acquisition?