As your M&A team looks ahead to the coming year, what do you see? Experts predict that 2018 will be a banner year for global M&A transactions, so now is the time to start preparing your organization to maximize value on every deal. Here’s a look at eight M&A trends for 2018.
Over the last two years, divestitures have comprised a rapidly increasing percentage of total M&A transaction value. If your organization is like most, you've done far more acquisitions than divestitures, and you may now be responding on the fly to this renewed sell-side challenge. Conversely, if your organization is an experienced Buyer, you may now be challenged with how to integrate certain divested assets, entities or divisions divested from a corporate whole, but less than the entire company as you have integrated before.
The Willis Towers Watson Global Benefits Attitudes Survey (GBAS) examines the role of benefits in defining and differentiating today’s employee value proposition. The survey explores the extent to which benefits individually and collectively shape employees’ actions; how closely they align with employees’ employment and lifestyle priorities; and their links to stress, absence, presenteeism and work engagement.
Mergermarket is pleased to present Hitting the Right Targets, published in association with Willis Towers Watson. Based on interviews with 200 senior-level executives within the insurance industry, the report explores how insurers are optimizing their capital strategies and what effect this will have on the M&A market.
We learned the hard way how important due diligence really is! The Buyer, the management of one product line, purchased a very small-carve out from a firm in China. Because it was so small, the deal didn’t go through the Corporate Due Diligence office.
Occasionally deal makers have fleeting moments of fright about buying what may seem to be something of a haunted house. Some ghastly surprises may cast a pall on deciding to stay in the deal. With a few days – and late nights - of due diligence, we may find skeletons hanging in closets and monsters lurking under beds.
Mergermarket, an Acuris brand, will host two M&A forums in November.
As industries consolidate, and more companies pursue M&A, buyers need to be more vigilant than ever in their due diligence regarding what artificial intelligence (AI)
and autonomous systems (AS) risks lurk within any given transaction.