M&A Blog and News

September 21, 2016

Using the Experiences of Serial Acquirers to Build a Repeatable Model
Contributed by Willis Towers Watson, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council

Last year was a standout year for mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Not only did we see some of the largest deals in history, but the M&A market showed strength and depth with records broken for both...

September 21, 2016

M&A Leadership Council a Media Partner at International Event
Presented by AVCJ and Mergermarket, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council

Chinese companies have become key players within the global M&A market. To enable participants to have better understand the opportunities and challenges in acquiring overseas assets, Mergermarket and AVCJ, Asia’s leading private equity information provider, are joining forces ...
 

September 21, 2016

Some Interesting M&A Data
Provided by Mergermarket, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council

Activistmonitor, a Mergermarket Group comprehensive shareholder activist platform that covers shareholder activist data and intelligence, including 13F filing analysis, has released its findings for the... 

September 14, 2016

It’s time to wrap up this series on culture with a final issue highlighting a few practical suggestions for helping you win with culture during the course of a broader M&A integration effort. We will certainly move on to other important topics, but given the poor track record of dealing with culture within the M&A community, we felt compelled to do what we can to help turn this tide. This need was highlighted by the analysis we did on our survey, the State of M&A Integration Effectiveness™ 2014.

September 7, 2016

Do you know your organization’s M&A training quotient (“TQ”)? Most executives don’t. Is there any wonder why acquirer’s make the same mistakes over and over again?

August 31, 2016

“One of the most important parts of making a deal successful after you complete it is what you do before you complete it.” Is there any more tried and true due diligence and deal making success principle than this?

Before we can think about bridging from diligence to integration, we have to ensure that we launch and conduct a comprehensive and successful diligence effort with thorough traditional and strategic diligence, including early and adequate evaluation of many issues typically kicked down the road, often to the buyer’s regret!

August 29, 2016

Chairman's Message
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council

In my mind, there are two primary purposes to Due Diligence in M&A: 1) confirming or validating the historic financial performance of the business, and 2) predicting what the future performance of the... 

August 29, 2016

Setting the Organization Cures Many Ills
By Mark Herndon, President, M&A Partners, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council

You’ve probably heard me quote my friend, mentor and former client, Jeff Hemmer, many times in the past, and with good reason. As an executive for a major acquirer and veteran integration leader on multiple large acquisitions...