M&A Blog and News

February 26, 2020

Spot Cyber & IT Challenges Through Improved Due Diligence
Hosted by the M&A Leadership Council 

February 26, 2020

Chairman's Message - February 2020
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of M&A Leadership Council 

Two recent data points powerfully drove home the importance of the upcoming Art of M&A℠ Due Diligence workshop, April 14-16, 2020, in San Diego. First, the Bain Corporate M&A Report 2020, which highlighted 2019 survey data

February 20, 2020

M&A has been confined to smaller deals in Medicaid- and Medicare-focused companies.
By Dane Hamilton and Claire Rychlewski, with Mergermarket, an Acuris Company and partner of the M&A Leadership Council 

The U.S. health insurance market, roiled by transformative deals in recent years, will likely face a lull in major deal activity in 2020 while firms await critical federal election outcomes, industry executives said.

February 5, 2020

5 Ways to Link Your Integration to the Strategic Deal Thesis
Webinar by M&A Partners 

If your acquisition integrations resemble a tightly managed initiative that regularly over-achieves the business case justifying the deal in the first place, then this webinar isn’t for you. However, if it’s closer to an uncoordinated functional mess in danger of not achieving (or worse, losing) value, then keep reading, we will help you navigate through that chaos

January 28, 2020

Global & Regional M&A Report 2019
Submitted by Mergermarket, an Acuris company and partner of the M&A Leadership Council 

Mergermarket, an Acuris company, has released its Global M&A roundup for 2019, including its financial advisors league tables. Take a look at the report HERE and don’t forget to review the charts breaking down the activity by sector, value, year-to-year analysis, etc.

January 22, 2020

Chairman's Message - January 2020
By Mark Herndon, Chairman

The M&A Leadership Council was honored late last month by a leading investment, financial and business news site, ValueWalk, as the #1 M&A site for valuable news, insights and expertise.

December 19, 2019

December 2019- Chairman's Message
by Mark Herndon, Chief Knowledge Officer & Chairman

It’s an exciting time at the M&A Leadership Council! On behalf of the entire team, April Dumas, Larry Dell, me, and our founders, Jim Jeffries and Jack Prouty, we can’t wait to build on this tremendous foundation of success and best-in-class professional development.

December 12, 2019

A quintessential element of any successful acquisition integration is establishing and maintaining a relentless focus on delivering outstanding and seamless customer experience (“CX”). One essential element of superior integration-related CX is a similarly vigilant focus on delivering an outstanding company-wide approach to Employee Experience (“EX”). EX is all about the connection an employee feels with the company. In M&A specifically, it is about helping employees have a positive experience during the transition by ensuring their needs are met and their voices heard.