M&A Blog and News
May 12, 2021
Stack the Deck in Your Favor
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council
If you compare M&A results over the last 20 years, you’ll notice the data has barely changed. Between 50 and 70% of all deals underperform their original business objectives. Facing this very real risk, what can businesses do to improve their odds?
March 2, 2021
The Impact of M&A on IT
By Mark Rapier, Senior Advisor, M&A Partners
Information technology (IT) is often cast in terms of its role in M&A and its significance to risk mitigation, operational continuity, and achieving optimal deal results. Yet, many C-level executives outside of IT don’t have an adequate understanding of how M&A impacts the IT
March 2, 2021
Chairman’s Message – March 2021
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council
Over the last two years, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have dominated the IPO market. According to BusinessInsider, 219 SPACs raised $73B in new IPOs during 2020 alone.
March 1, 2021
Are the New Employees Ready?
By Jahan Mirun Jaganmohan, Integration Leader at TIBCO; and Mark Herndon, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council
Brands and human capital are fundamentally important assets of any M&A transaction. Yet many acquirers fail to effectively prepare and align employees of the target company to embrace and adopt the acquirer’s brand and organizational values.
February 8, 2021
How to Lead Your Next Acquisition from Chaos to Consistent, Repeatable Results: Recommendations from Five M&A Experts
Released by the M&A Leadership Council
DALLAS – February 5, 2021 Most M&A deals still fail to hit their full targeted strategic or financial objectives, but there’s a growing number of acquirers determined
February 1, 2021
Chairman’s Message – February 2021
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council
With substantial capital available, acquirers are anticipating greater deal volume and more competition among potential buyers, especially more experienced or more agile private equity or SPAC buyers. Many active acquirers are doing multiple, simultaneous, and overlapping deals; often with different deal-types, structures and with varying degrees of risk and integration challenges.
January 7, 2021
Chairman’s Message – January 2021
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council
In addition to our excellent educational content and fantastic Alumni community helping you get every aspect of M&A right in your organization, we are pleased to debut several important “can’t miss” webinars
January 6, 2021
Board M&A Tips for the New Normal
Mark Herndon Interviews with Boardroom Insider
For the global economy, 2020 was no doubt a series of shocks, but the crashing lows seem to have been followed by some giddy highs (in late November the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average finished above 30,000 for the first time in history). Merger and acquisition activity has been bouncy too.